Laboratory of Molecular Biology
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America
Dr. Alewine received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency in the Osler Medical Training Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by clinical fellowship in Medical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute. She joined the Laboratory of Molecular Biology as an Assistant Clinical Investigator through the support of the Clinical Investigator Development program in 2014 and became a tenure-track investigator through the NIH Lasker Scholar program in 2016.
1. Identifying effective combination therapies that can enhance the activity of immunotoxins by increasing delivery and efficacy 2. Evaluating efficacy of new immunotoxins against pancreatic cancer models in vivo and in vitro 3. Developing new syngeneic mouse models that allow evaluation of immunotoxin effect in the context of an intact immune system. 4. Examining the biology of mesothelin. Scientific Focus Areas: Clinical Research, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry