Jessica C. Stark PhD

Jessica's work aims to identify and target glyco-immune checkpoints for cancer immunotherapy, supported by an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University with Prof. Michael Jewett, where she developed new, portable technologies for glycoprotein therapeutic and vaccine biomanufacturing. Before starting her Ph.D., Jessica received her BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University and worked at Genentech, Inc. in process development and research and development roles. Jessica is committed to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM through mentoring, outreach, and service activities, most recently as a selected member of the Stanford chemistry department’s equity and inclusion committee. To support this work, Jessica co-developed and launched commercial BioBits® educational kits that promise to increase access to high-quality biology education by facilitating hands-on learning.