Jessica C. Stark

Dr. Jessica Stark is currently an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford University. She received her B.S. from Cornell University supported by an Irwin and Joan Jacobs Engineering Scholarship. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Michael Jewett at Northwestern University, Jessica developed new, portable technologies for glycoprotein therapeutic and vaccine biomanufacturing. Her postdoctoral work focuses on identifying and targeting glyco-immune checkpoints for cancer immunotherapy. Jessica’s work has been recognized with multiple awards, including a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, a HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow Finalist Award, a Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship, and the Northwestern Chemical Engineering Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award. Jessica is committed to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM through mentoring, outreach, and service activities. To support this work, Jessica co-developed and commercialized BioBits® educational kits that promise to increase access to high-quality biology education by facilitating hands-on learning.