Beatrice Grauman is a PhD student in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies in the Vicković Lab at the New York Genome Center. Her path to graduate school has been shaped by a deep curiosity about cancer biology and the mechanisms of therapy resistance. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 2021, with honors in biology and political science, and spent four years in the Hemann Lab at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research investigating classical chemotherapy and CAR-T therapy resistance. Before beginning her PhD, she further broadened her research experience studying viral infection in the Tarakhovsky Lab at The Rockefeller University.
At IICD, Beatrice’s work focuses on building a spatially resolved roadmap of cancer evolution. She is particularly interested in how tumor–microenvironment interactions drive cellular plasticity, and how technologies like CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics can uncover context-specific vulnerabilities that may shift the trajectory of disease.
Find out what inspires Beatrice and what her interests are outside of the lab by watching her Faces of IICD video feature.
