University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Caroline Kerr, PhD is an MD/PhD student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Scientist Training Program. She completed a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in March 2024 and was co-advised by Dr. Zachary Morris, MD/PhD, and Dr. Jamey Weichert, PhD. She led a multidisciplinary investigation of combination radiopharmaceutical therapy and immunotherapy. Her thesis was titled “Radiopharmaceutical therapy for tumor immunomodulation and enhancing immunotherapy response.” Her PhD work focused on how the physical properties of 90Y, 177Lu, or 225Ac-based radiopharmaceuticals affect the tumor immune response and response to immune checkpoint blockade in preclinical murine tumor models.
During her PhD, Dr. Kerr earned an NIH F30 fellowship, a UW-Madison Radiology MD-PhD Graduate Student Fellowship, and travel awards from Radiation Research Society, International Congress for Radiation Research, American Radium Society, UW-Madison MSTP, UW Carbone Cancer Center, UW Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, and the UW-Madison Student Research Grants Competition. She has authored 11 first-author abstracts, a first-author review manuscript, and 3 first-author original research articles (in peer review process) and co-authored several additional abstracts and research articles during her training at UW-Madison. Dr. Kerr is applying to radiation oncology residency programs in 2024-2025, where she hopes to advance her clinical and research training with a career goal of becoming a physician scientist with an independent translational research laboratory.
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