Principal Investigator

Melissa Reeves, Ph.D. Melissa Reeves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah and at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

She completed her PhD with Allan Balmain at UCSF, where she studied tumor heterogeneity and evolution. Dr. Reeves was subsequently awarded the prestigious UCSF Sandler Fellowship to start her own independent lab in 2017, and she moved to the University of Utah in 2022. Her lab studies tumor heterogeneity and its impact on the immune response to cancer as well as clonal evolution of tumors following immunotherapy.

LAB MEMBERS

Piyush Chaudhary, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Robert Letchworth

Graduate Student

 

Joshua Tay

Technician

 

REEVES LAB ALUMNI

Alina Barnes

Graduate student, Masters of Laboratory Science

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Miho Tanaka, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Daphne Superville

Graduate Student, UCSF BMS program

Savannah Hughes

Technician

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Lotus Lum

Staff Scientist

 

Kenneth Ng

Staff Scientist

REEVES LAB PHOTO GALLERY

Lake hike at Silver Lake

Lab hike to Cecret Lake, Alta

Lab Christmas party

Lab Christmas party 2023

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“Keep calm and Confetti on” escapes the room