Portia is primed for battle: How a postdoctoral research associate is helping to harness the human immune system to fight cancer
Harnessing the human body’s power to combat cancer is all in a day’s work for University of Wisconsin–Madison postdoctoral research associate, Portia Smith, PhD. Whether she is engineering white blood cells to fight tumors or exploring the mechanisms behind the deadliest forms of cancer, Smith is determined to help the human immune system win the …