Jessica Kenison-white PhD

Jessica Kenison-White received her B.A graduate from Boston University, where she majored in Neuroscience and performed research in the laboratory of Dr. Cynthia Lemere. After graduating, she joined Dr. Quintana’s lab as a technical research associate, where she contributed to multiple projects focused on identifying factors that contribute to the regulation of the adaptive immune system in the context of autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

She then went on to pursue her PhD in Immunology at Boston University School of Medicine, where she studied in the laboratory of Dr. David Sherr. There she identified roles for the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in controlling immune mechanisms, which are critical for both cancer and autoimmunity. She re-joined Dr. Quintana’s lab in 2021 as a postdoctoral research fellow and is currently focused on identifying novel immune mechanisms that drive the pathogenesis of inflammatory and neuroinflammatory diseases.