Research Team

As principal investigator in the Immunometabolism and Cancer Immunology Lab, Dr. Curtis leads a team that is advancing research in the discovery of new therapeutics for high-grade serous ovarian cancer to improve patient outcomes.

Marion R. Curtis, Ph.D.

Dr. Curtis, an expert in immunology, works in the Department of Research at Mayo Clinic. She is an assistant professor of immunology at Mayo Clinic College of Science and Medicine. Dr. Curtis focuses on ovarian cancer biology, specifically identifying mediators of immune cell metabolism and function.

Dr. Curtis is the author of numerous scientific publications. She has received several scientific awards for her research to develop new treatments for ovarian cancer.

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Remya Raja, Ph.D.

Dr. Raja is a postdoctoral fellow focused on identifying tumor-specific antigens from ovarian cancer using multi-omics approaches. She received her Ph.D. from the National Centre for Cell Science in Pune, India, in 2013 and joined a research group led by Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D., at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India.

Her previous research experience is in quantitative mass spectrometric analysis to identify differentially activated signaling pathways in cancer. Dr. Raja has authored several publications.

Emma Utagawa

Utagawa is a Graduate Research Education Program (GREP) participant studying the impact of aging-associated metabolites on CD8 T-cell function in the context of cancer. Before joining the Curtis lab, she worked in the pathobiology and neurobiology of cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome.

She received a bachelor's degree in medical studies and a minor in Spanish from Barrett, The Honors College, at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.