Dr. Andrew Martins

Biography

Andrew James Martins is an Assistant Professor in the Yale School of Medicine, focusing on the intersection of human immunology and systems biology. His research aims to enable deeper analysis of clinical samples by adapting single-cell omics technologies for use with a variety of sample types and sizes. He expects that assessments of individual cell states across a wide range of clinical studies will yield comprehensive catalogs of cell states associated with the health and disease of donors/patients, which could lead to the development of new therapeutic interventions targeting specific phenotypes of immune cells to fine-tune immune responses. Additionally, his work involves devising novel methods to assess and mechanistically interrogate single-cell behaviors in human samples through dynamic imaging assays and tissue-mimicking culture conditions. His lab projects often combine experimental wet bench work with computational approaches and foster collaboration among lab members and other researchers.

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