Overview

Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Paulos was the Cecilia and Vincent Peng Endowed Chair in Melanoma at the Medical University of South Carolina. She also served as co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Research Program and director of the Adoptive Cancer Immunotherapy Program at Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, SC.

Dr. Paulos received her PhD in Biochemistry from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She completed her post-doctoral training in genetherapy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and in tumor immunology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

The objective of Dr. Paulos' research is to develop novel T cell-based therapies for patients with melanoma. Her laboratory seeks to identify mechanisms underlying protective immunity in solid tumors, with an emphasis on adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) therapy. By combining basic and translational understanding of human T cells in clinical studies with mechanistic studies in relevant mouse models and in investigator-initiated clinical trials in patients, her research team has contributed significant insight into the various roles of how to mount T cell memory responses to tumors.

Academic Appointment

• David H. Lawson Professorship in Cancer Research, Emory University School of Medicine
• Acting Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research