Schematic Illustrations
As a scientist, published work is my bread and butter. Unsurprisingly, creating art for this type of content is my sweet spot. Check out some of my published illustrations below!
Adoptive cell transfer in ovarian cancer review
I created three illustrations for the review article shown below (click on it to link to the full, open-access version). For this project, I was given a working manuscript by the authors with an invitation to develop whatever figures I liked. Since the topics of ovarian cancer and adoptive cell transfer are outside of my knowledge area, the first two figures were borne organically from my own consolidation of concepts in the text. The third figure was developed more closely with the authors, who had a clear concept of how to visualize the future of ACT in OC.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of autologous T cell generation, expansion, and patient infusion.
Figure 2. Cellular mechanisms governing T cell suppression in the TME and examples of strategies to circumvent local immune suppression to improve ACT.
Figure 3. A model for integrating real-world experience and experimental data to inform new approaches for ACT.
Brain Tumor Textbook chapter
I was recently asked to contribute a chapter for the third edition of the Handbook of Brain Tumor Chemotherapy, Molecular Therapeutics, and Immunotherapy (Elsevier). In addition to writing the chapter on cell cycle regulation, I developed four figures to accompany it. These schematics outline some of the basic molecular features of the cell cycle.
SurVaxM mechanism of action diagram
This schematic depicts the mechanism of action for the novel immunotherapeutic SurVaxM. The style is quite different from my other schematics, owing to the fact that the objects were modeled in 3D. I made this piece using Chimera X and Photoshop.
