Contractor
Education:
B.Sc. (Honors), M.Sc., Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town
Biography
Andrew focused his educational studies on secreted biomarkers in cancer. He then moved to the United States, where he worked as a research technician in the Oudin Lab at Tufts University, investigating drivers of breast cancer metastasis. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrew worked as a clinical genomic technologist at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, where he performed high-throughput COVID-19 clinical testing on patient samples. At FPS, Andrew will study the cellular and molecular underpinnings of host-fungal interactions while supporting the research efforts of the Lionakis lab team.