Susannah Calhoun

Prior to joining Parthenon as the Senior Scientist of Translational Biology, Susannah was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where she worked jointly between the Oncology and Immuno-Oncology departments. Her research studied the role of immunosuppressive immune cell receptors in the tumor microenvironment using Visium Spatial Gene Expression ® technology and single cell RNA-sequencing. She completed her PhD in 2017 at Weill Cornell Graduate School in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis. Her doctoral research studied the DNA repair mechanisms of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum using whole genome sequencing. She received her BA in Biology from Smith College in 2010.