Melissa Skala
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research; Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
Email: mcskala@wisc.edu
Website: Melissa Skala's website
Phone: 608-316-4108
Address:
330 N Orchard St; Madison, WI 53715
Education
PhD Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Research Summary
- Optical imaging
- Metabolism
- Cancer
- Immunology
- Machine learning
Research Details
Dr. Skala’s lab develops biomedical optical imaging technologies for cancer research, cell therapy, and immunology. Current projects focus on tumor immunology and immunotherapy, cell-level metabolic heterogeneity, and cell-cell interactions. Collaborative projects leverage these unique photonics-based tools for clinical problems, including quality control in T cell and stem cell therapies, designing personalized treatment plans for cancer patients, monitoring diseases in the eye, discovering new therapies for a range of diseases, and many others. Projects are highly diverse and range from translational research to hypothesis-driven questions to algorithm / instrumentation development.
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