Roddy O'Connor, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D.

Dr. Roddy O'Connor is a Research Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and, also serves as the Scientific Advisor for Nucleus Biologics. He is a highly regarded expert in CAR-T cell metabolism. His research emphasizes novel conditioning strategies and genetic approaches to confer unique metabolic attributes to CAR T cells. Dr. O’Connor earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology from Emory University School of Medicine and later did his postdoctoral research in Cancer Biology and T cell immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania.