Dr. Kanika Jain is a Scientist at Ankyra where she is working to expand and advance the company’s pre-clinical pipeline of immunomodulatory agents. Prior to Ankyra, she was a Scientist at Moderna, working in discovery research as part of their Immuno-Oncology team. Dr. Jain earned her PhD in Cancer Biology from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For her thesis, she investigated novel mechanisms to transform immunologically cold sarcomas into hot through activation of Natural Killer cells. Dr. Jain also earned a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology, India.