PhD Candidate, Cancer Biology
Emory University School of Medicine
Marina Michaud is a PhD candidate in the Cancer Biology PhD program at Emory University, where she began training under the mentorship of Dr. Manoj Bhasin in 2023. Her research primarily centers on applying single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to map the landscape of the tumor microenvironment across diverse cancers, aiming to identify novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets. She seeks to strategically use the latest bioinformatic advances to uncover new biological insights and develop new computational tools to address key questions in cancer research. Marina extended her studies to multiple myeloma (MM) as a member of the MMRF Immune Atlas Consortium, contributing to the elucidation of intercellular communication in the MM bone marrow immune microenvironment. Additionally, as a Computational Biology Fellow at the Myeloma Solutions Fund, she leads investigations into the noncoding landscape of the myeloma bone marrow microenvironment. She has also contributed to several other MM studies, focusing on the longitudinal profiling of immune microenvironment therapy responses, applying deep learning to distinguish between healthy and malignant plasma cells during myelomagenesis, and pioneering genome-wide spatial transcriptomic mapping of MM biopsies at single-cell resolution.