I am a PhD candidate in the Bhardwaj Lab at the Sackler Institute, New York University Medical Center. I am in the Molecular Oncology and Immunology Program. My interests are wide, but encompass macroeconomic outlook in general and more specifically as it pertains to the health/biotech/pharma sector. Otherwise I focus most of my days on trying to: 1) Optimizing dendritic cells through engagement of toll like receptors for use in the vaccination setting to combat melanoma 2) Understanding signal transduction sequence of events that upon simultaneous engagement of different toll like receptors take place and are different from the signaling induced by either alone.