Claudia Jakubzick: Work hard, play hard

Abstract

Claudia Jakubzick will be an Associate Professor at Dartmouth in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology working on immune homeostasis and how the immune system can recognize and target precancerous cells. She started her own laboratory at National Jewish Health in 2014, becoming a tenure-track Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor in 2017, and will relocate to Dartmouth mid-2019. She is also a member of the American Association of Immunologists’ Minority Affairs Committee. We contacted Claudia to find out about her career in science.