Cong Fu, PhD completed her doctoral studies with Prof. Dr. Weijun Pan at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health. She completed an initial post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Thomas Look and then joined the Uppaluri lab in 2020. She is interested in HNSCC immunotherapy resistance mechanisms. Her work is a collaborative effort with Dr. Robert Manguso of the Broad/MIT where she is performing in vivo CRISPR screens to define immunotherapy resistance mechanisms.