Oksana Goroshchuk is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor David Hafler at the Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine. Currently, she is a fellow of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and works on the uncovering sex differences in biology of CD4+ T cells.
Oksana obtained her medical degree in the National Bogomolets Medical University in Ukraine in 2012 and specialized in General Practice - Family Medicine in 2016.
She completed her PhD in Medicine at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden in 2020, where she focused on testing siRNA-based drugs and small molecule inhibitors for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children. At KI she was a member of the Doctoral Student Association. As a member of the KI Career Service blog, she wrote about PhD life in Sweden.
She is actively involved in YPA since 2021. She’s also serving as a Chaplain’s Office Liaison at YPA.