Patty Garcia

Biography

Patty Garcia is a Research Scientist with training in both immunology and cancer biology.  She is currently the lead scientist in the company’s research efforts to improve upon CAR-T technologies. After receiving her B.S. from Santa Clara University, she went on to obtain her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Immunology and Pathogenesis. Her thesis culminated in published work that identified miRNAs that govern key regulatory check-points in lymphocyte development. This work led her to have a long-standing interest in miRNAs. Patty went on to complete her post-doctoral work in the Cancer Biology program at Stanford University. There, her work focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which Gain-of-Function mutations in the tumor suppressor p53, cause it to promote oncogenesis.  Upon completion of her post-doctoral work, Patty returned to her deep-rooted interest of miRNAS and lymphocyte biology and joined Benitec Biopharma in December, 2015.

Research Interest

 Molecular and Cell Biology