{"id":29144,"date":"2024-05-31T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/?p=29144"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T14:18:52","slug":"congratulations-to-our-new-phd-amelia-mccue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/congratulations-to-our-new-phd-amelia-mccue\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our new PhD, Amelia McCue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia McCue successfully defended her PhD thesis titled \u201cEngineering Tumor-Selective T Cell Engager Prodrugs for Cancer Immunotherapy\u201d on Thursday, May 23, 2024, under the guidance of Dr. Brian Kuhlman.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9448 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2019\/05\/Amelia-McCue-Fall-2019-Kuhlman-lab.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Amelia McCue Fall 2019 Kuhlman lab\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Amelia obtained her B.A. in Chemistry in 2018 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH where she synthesized photoactivatable chemotherapy drugs for targeted drug delivery in Dr. Thomas Shell\u2019s Lab. This work sparked her passion for designing targeted therapeutics and pursuing biomedical research for her PhD thesis.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div>She joined the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at UNC in 2018 in the Biophysics track. Her graduate research in Dr. Brian Kuhlman\u2019s lab focused on designing safer antibody therapeutics for treating cancer that engage the immune system to direct T cell killing of cancer in a tumor-selective manner. While at UNC, Amelia also served as a committee chair for numerous BCBP committees &#8211; the Social Committee, Student Seminar Planning Committee and the Student Seminar Nominations Committee. She was awarded funding from a Biophysics T32 Training Grant, an NIH Diversity Supplement, and a UNC Dissertation Completion Fellowship during her time in the Kuhlman Lab.<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">Amelia will be joining Dr. Jamie Spangler\u2019s lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, as a postdoctoral fellow, where she will continue her work in translational immuno-engineering and protein therapeutic design.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>We wish you all the best, Dr. McCue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia McCue successfully defended her PhD thesis titled \u201cEngineering Tumor-Selective T Cell Engager Prodrugs for Cancer Immunotherapy\u201d on Thursday May 23, 2024, under the guidance of Dr. Brian Kuhlman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[394,13],"class_list":["post-29144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news_2024","tag-news_students","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations to our new PhD, Amelia McCue! 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