Peter Westcott
Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Westcott is an Assistant Professor and cancer geneticist who combines mouse-model genetics and immunology to dissect how tumors and the immune system coevolve across tumorigenesis. Over a decade of research at UCSF, MIT, and now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, he developed complementary model systems to probe neoantigen dynamics and T cell responses, revealing how low antigen expression and intratumoral heterogeneity drive immune evasion. His work spans rigorous comparative genomics of carcinogen- and GEMM-driven tumors to engineered neoantigen platforms, producing high-impact, translational insights with direct implications for immunotherapy and biomarker development. He is notable for bridging mechanistic mouse studies with questions that are hard to address in humans, aiming to map early T cell dysfunction and clonal selective bottlenecks during tumor initiation. Based in Huntington, NY, he brings a rare combination of experimental genetics, immunology, and computational mutation-signature analysis to guide therapeutic strategies.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics at UCSFBachelor of Science (BS), Biology and Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology and Chemistry at Cornell University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (2)
docpaa/mumdex
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:149 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
docpaa/smash-paper
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 branch, 2 comments in 6 months
genomicsbinningbioinformaticsmappingsmash
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