Opportunities in the Mace Lab

Thomas A. Mace, Ph.D. – Principal Investigator

Dr. Mace is a  Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition.  Dr. Mace’s  research laboratory is focused on translational immunology and cancer research.  His group is studying mechanisms of immune suppression in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment which could lead to novel therapies for this disease.  His laboratory is also investigating the use of dietary nutritional intervention to modulate inflammation in chronic diseases and cancer.  Dr. Mace has published papers in Gut, Cancer Research, JITC, and Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy, among others.

Dr. Mace was born Toledo, Ohio and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.  Dr. Mace is a graduate of Canisius College (B.S. Biology) and received his doctoral degree in Tumor Immunology from Roswell Park Cancer Institute.  He completed a postdoctoral fellowship, under Dr. Gregory Lesinski’s mentorship on a competitive, immunology-focused NIH T32 fellowship held by Dr. Michael Caligiuri.  Dr. Mace is currently and has been funded by NIH-NCI, National Pancreas Foundation, USDA, and OSUCCC startup funds.

Debasmita Mukherjee – Graduate Research Associate.  PhD student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) program.

Jess Wedig – Graduate Research Associate.  PhD student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) program.

 

Hannah Lathrop, B.S. – Laboratory Research Assistant and Lab Manager.

Liliana D’Alesio – Undergraduate Neuroscience Student (Class of 2024)

Abby Guenther – Undergraduate  Student (Class of 2026)

Priya Matreja – Undergraduate  Student (Class of 2025)

Morgan Kaiser – Undergraduate  Student (Class of 2026)

Past and Former Laboratory Members

Lena Bercz – Undergraduate Student (Class of 2022); 2021/2022 Pelotonia Undergraduate Fellow

 

Shrina Jasani – Undergraduate BMS Student (Class of 2023)

 

Timothy Pfau, B.S. – Laboratory Research Assistant and Lab Manager.

Molly Torok, B.S. – Former laboratory Research Assistant and Lab Manager (2021-2022)

Fouad Choueiry, B.S. –  Former laboratory Research Assistant (2017-2019)

Kriti Agrwal – Undergraduate Biomedical Science Student (Class of 2021); 2019/2020 Pelotonia undergraduate fellow

Rahul Kumar – Undergraduate Biomedical Science Student (Class of 2021)

Neil Makhijani – Undergraduate Student (B.S., 2018); 2017/2018 Pelotonia undergraduate fellow.

Anna Deems – Undergraduate Student (Class of 2019)