Deja Brooks

Current Student, 2021 Cohort
Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences Students, School of Medicine

Biography

Research Interests: studying molecular interactions in the human body. This led to her current pursuit of exploring how the RIG-I pathway interacts with PARP signaling in cancer. Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) senses RNA in the cytosol, aiding in cellular immunity while PARPs are known to aid in DNA damage repair.

Deja is a joint student in both Michael Cohen's lab and Sudarshan Anand's lab.

Education and training

- B.S., 2019, Portland State University

Additional information

Michael Cohen Lab
Sudarshan Anand Lab

Honors and awards

Promising Scholar Award, OHSU (2021)

Publications

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