Principal Investigator
Melissa Reeves, Ph.D. Melissa Reeves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah and at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
She completed her PhD with Allan Balmain at UCSF, where she studied tumor heterogeneity and evolution. Dr. Reeves was subsequently awarded the prestigious UCSF Sandler Fellowship to start her own independent lab in 2017, and she moved to the University of Utah in 2022. Her lab studies tumor heterogeneity and its impact on the immune response to cancer as well as clonal evolution of tumors following immunotherapy.
LAB MEMBERS
Piyush Chaudhary, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jadyn Leek
Graduate Student
Matt Lieberman
Technician
Robert Letchworth
Graduate Student
Chloe Kang
Graduate Student
REEVES LAB ALUMNI
Joshua Tay
Technician
Alina Barnes
Graduate student, Masters of Laboratory Science
Miho Tanaka, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daphne Superville
Graduate Student, UCSF BMS program
Savannah Hughes
Technician
Lotus Lum
Staff Scientist
Kenneth Ng
Staff Scientist
REEVES LAB PHOTO GALLERY
Lab hike, Bells Canyon 2025
Bells Canyon Waterfall 2025
Lake hike at Silver Lake 2024
Lab hike to Cecret Lake, Alta 2023
In the HCI Courtyard 2023
Lab Christmas party 2024
Lab Christmas party 2023
“Keep calm and Confetti on” escapes the room 2019