Faculty FacultyJessica StarkUnderwood-Prescott Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering phone617.253.3159emailjcstark@mit.eduroom76-253F Research Website Research Interests glycobiology, molecular, systems, and cancer immunology, immunotherapy, biomolecular engineering, biotechnology, synthetic biology Education Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2019 B.S., Cornell University, 2012 Publications Honors and Awards Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, 2023-2028 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Steven A. Rosenberg Scholars Award, 2023 Broad Institute Next Generation in Biomedicine, 2022 Johns Hopkins and Columbia University Rising Stars in Engineering in Health, 2022 Best Speaker, University of Washington Distinguished Young Scholars, 2022 Sloan Kettering Institute/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center MERIT Emerging Leader, 2022 Leading Edge Fellow, 2022 American Chemical Society Best of BIOT Award, 2022 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023 National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute F32 NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021 Cottrell Emerging Scholar, 2020 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, 2019 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellow Finalist, 2019 Northwestern University Chemical Engineering Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award, 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering, 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2015-2018 National Institutes of Health T32 Biotechnology Training Program Fellow, 2014 Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellow, 2014