Katherine Hastings

Role: Co-Chair

Biography:

Katherine Hastings is a second year postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Katerina Politi at the Yale Cancer Center.  Her research is focused on understanding mechanisms of acquired resistance to immunotherapy in lung cancer as well as developing novel mouse models to better study immunotherapy.  Katherine completed her Ph.D. training in Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University in 2015, where she studied the role of EPH receptors in drug resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in lung cancer.  As co-chair of the YPA, Katherine is passionate about helping Yale postdocs connect to each other as well as making postdocs aware of the abundant resources on Yale’s campus.

Send her an e-mail here: katherine.hastings@yale.edu