Sara Vazquez
Graduate Student
Sara Vazquez is an MD/PhD student in the labs of Mark Anderson and Joe Derisi. She is currently working to improve PhIP-seq protocols to enable scalable autoantibody discovery in a variety of disease contexts, including rare monogenic disorders, sporadic autoimmune diabetes, and COVID-related autoimmunity. Prior to medical school, Sara worked at the Joslin Diabetes Center optimizing hematopoietic stem cell isolation in autoimmune-prone mouse strains. She received her undergraduate degree in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at Harvard. Her longer-term research interests are in combining molecular auto-antigen discovery with therapeutic approaches for re-establishing immune tolerance in autoimmunity.