Neurosurgeon, Director of Device-Based Neuroelectronics Lab Mayo Clinic - Arizona
Dr. Karen Anderson is a tumor biologist and Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, where she also serves as the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering. She earned both her M.D. and Ph.D. from Duke University. Dr. Anderson completed her clinical training in hematology and oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and she is board-certified in both oncology and hematology. Dr. Anderson’s research focuses on harnessing the immune system to detect and modify cancer development. Her team investigates the diversity and specificity of the adaptive immune response. Utilizing molecular techniques such as nanopore sequencing, protein arrays, molecular modeling and functional genomics, her group explores the early immune alterations associated with cancer to identify novel targets for treatment and vaccine development.