John Hickey, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Garry Nolan
Stanford University
Seminar Information
John's areas of research sit at the interface of engineering and immunology. He has applied spatial omics toolsets to describe tissue organization in healthy, cancer, and animal models. His most recent efforts have centered on cell therapies, where he has applied multiplexed imaging and bioinformatic techniques to characterize therapeutic T cell microenvironments in tumors. He has also developed computational tools that are needed to decode critical interactions within the multidimensional data, such as multiscale models and deep learning cell type transfer.
John trained with Dr. Jonathan Schneck and Hai-Quan Mao at Johns Hopkins University for his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, where he developed magnetic nanoparticles for enriching and expanding rare antigen-specific T cells and hydrogels for adoptive T cell therapy. Now John is an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Garry Nolan at Stanford University, where he uses and builds systems biology tools to describe spatial relationships between cells in tissues.