This week, we will be joined by Alenxdra (Ali) Massa! Ali is a 4th year PhD Candidate & Innovation Fellow in Cancer Biology at Dartmouth's Guarini School of Graduate Arts and Sciences. Her research is focused on endogenous retroviruses and how their expression impacts the immune system in health & disease. Prior to Dartmouth, she worked in Boston at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and then immuno-oncology startup, Neon Therapeutics (now BioNTech US) In addition to PhD, works as a Venture Fellow at an early-stage healthcare investment firm, Borealis Ventures, participated in Dartmouth’s Innovations Accelerator for Cancer, & served on Dartmouth’s Entrepreneurship Student Leadership Board. In her free time, loves to snowboard and volunteer at a local animal shelter. She's a big animal lover and her long term goal is to open a non-profit animal sanctuary!  

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