Sarah Sackey

Sarah Sackey (She/Her) is a PhD Candidate in Immunology. Her research interests include developing cure strategies for people living with HIV. Her thesis project is the development of a model of HIV infection in secondary lymphoid tissues in a dish to understand the HIV reservoir in tissues. In conjunction with this work, she is engineering NK cells to live longer and better target HIV-infected cells to eliminate them from secondary lymphoid tissue as a means of therapy for people living with HIV. She was a MARC scholar and received her BS in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics from UCLA.