Jina Ko speaks five languages, but in the lab, she’s trying to answer some big questions that being multilingual won’t help with. Why does immunotherapy work for some people and not for others? How can she create a device to detect and analyze molecules that are too small to be seen by any current technology? Learn more about Jina and her work in this month’s Humans of the Wyss.
I’m working on developing a diagnostic device to solve some of the most clinically intractable problems. The specific technology I’m working on now is a disease monitoring device that we are developing in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). It detects nanovesicles in the blood that act as disease markers and allows us to monitor immunotherapy in cancer patients.
