Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., 2022, George Washington University
Biography
Christine Perritano is a postbaccalaureate fellow who joined the Signaling Systems Section (SSS) in 2023. She moved from her hometown, Chicago, to gain her Bachelor of Science degree in molecular and cellular biology with a minor in French language, literature, and culture from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, in 2022. Her professional biological interests in the SSS involve interactions of immune intracellular signaling processes in the body in response to pathogens. Her project consists of developing and optimizing a high-throughput assay that screens for potential trained immunity metabolites using an endogenous TNF reporter assay. Once she validates the primary screen hits through multiple secondary screening assays, these novel trained immunity-inducing metabolites are being tested as potential therapeutics in people living with HIV and also have applications in cancer biology.