Elizabeth Carstens, MD earned a BS in Bioengineering from Rice University. She attended the University of Texas Southwestern for her MD, given with Distinction in Research for work she completed at the National Institutes of Health designing complement targeting antibodies. She then completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and now is a Dana- Farber Medical Oncology fellow specializing in care of patients receiving cellular immunotherapies. Her scientific interest is in developing nucleic acid-based immunotherapies for hematologic and solid malignancies.