Dr. McGee is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Immuno-Oncology at City of Hope in Duarte, CA.
Dr. McGee graduated from University of California Berkeley with honors with a degree in molecular cell biology/ biochemistry and then earned a master’s degree in immunology at University of Cambridge. She completed her doctoral training at Yale University where she earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. in immunobiology. She worked in the laboratory of Richard Flavell, Ph.D., studying immune-fibroblast interactions during wound healing and received Yale’s Prize Teaching Fellowship for teaching immunology to undergraduates.
Dr. McGee completed her intern year at University of California San Francisco and residency training in radiation oncology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, where her research was funded by a Salk Women & Science Special Award and a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute K99 grant.
At City of Hope, she is a physician-scientist who sees patients in radiation oncology and has a basic science laboratory focused on tumor immunology. Her lab is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute R00 grant, the American Association for Cancer Research-Debbie’s Dream Foundation Award for Gastric Cancer Research, and the City of Hope Chancellor's Award. Her laboratory investigations focus on the role of tissue-resident immune cells in response to radiation in different tumor microenvironments. She is passionate about translating scientific findings back to the clinic to create better outcomes for cancer patients.
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