Email

katherine.pendleton@bcm.edu

Positions

Graduate Student

Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

BS from Georgia Institute of Technology

05/2018 - Atlanta, Georgia United States

Biology: Health and Medical Sciences

Professional Statement

I am broadly interested in metabolic adaptations and the immune microenvironment in chemoresistant triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). My goal is to improve our understanding of TNBC on the genomic level and apply this knowledge into developing targeted therapeutics.

Websites

Selected Publications

• "Differential effects of PD-L1 versus PD-1 blockade on myeloid inflammation in human cancer." JCI Insight. 2019 May 19;5(12) Pubmed PMID: 32427579
• "Early alterations in stem-like/marrow-resident T cells and innate and myeloid cells in preneoplastic gammopathy." JCI Insight. 2019 Jun 6;4(11) Pubmed PMID: 31013254
• "Risk-associated alterations in marrow T cells in pediatric leukemia." JCI Insight. 2020 Jul 21;5(16) Pubmed PMID: 32692727
• "Aberrant extrafollicular B cells, immune dysfunction, myeloid inflammation and MyD88-mutant progenitors precede malignancy in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia." Blood Cancer Discovery. 2021 Sep 1 Pubmed PMID: 34778800