Benjamin Biggs

Benjamin Biggs

Australia

A Sydney native and former high-level soccer player, Ben is currently a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University in the nation’s top biomedical engineering program. His research seeks to harness the power of the immune system to directly combat cancer, uncovering new insights in adoptive T-cell therapy, biomaterial platforms, and molecular strategies. Currently, his specific research investigates molecular signaling strategies for expanding a diverse repertoire of neoantigen-specific T cells, leading to enduring and protective anti-cancer immunity. Ben's research is driven by a background at Genentech, Merck, and Shock Therapeutics, as well as having received the Genentech Outstanding Student Award, JHU ChemBE Outstanding Academic Student Award, and Joseph L. Katz Award, and serving with the Omicron Delta Kappa & Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Societies. Ben is an ambitious scientist pursuing more effective, accessible, and personalized cancer therapies for patients across the world.