{"id":474,"date":"2026-06-27T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:44:29","slug":"melanie-peck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/lab-members\/melanie-peck\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Peck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MCB graduate student &amp; Innovation PhD fellow<\/strong><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=474&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\" aria-describedby=\"set-post-thumbnail-desc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/Peck-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Peck is a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Dartmouth College in Dr. Yina Huang\u2019s lab. Her research focuses on advancing the lab\u2019s novel nanoparticle-ribocytokine intratumoral immunotherapy toward clinical translation. She works closely on IND-enabling studies that support the development of this therapy for an investigator-initiated Phase I clinical trial. Before coming to Dartmouth, Melanie earned her Bachelor of Medical Sciences in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences from Western University. Since 2022, she has also been involved in biotechnology entrepreneurship and commercialization through the Dartmouth Innovation PhD Fellowship, the Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Cancer, and her role as Co-President of the Dartmouth Biotechnology Club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohamed AO, Boone, DT, Ferry SL, <strong>Peck MC<\/strong>, Santos AM, Soderholm HE, Wittling MC, Paulos C, Turk MJ, Huang YH. CD4 T cell depletion increases memory differentiation of endogenous and CAR T cells and enhances the efficacy of Super2 and IL-33-armored CAR T cells against solid tumors. <em>J Immunother Cancer<\/em> 2025 Feb 11;13(2):e009994. doi: 10.1136\/jitc-2024-009994. PMID: 39933839.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCB graduate student &amp; Innovation PhD fellow &nbsp; Melanie Peck is a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Dartmouth College in Dr. Yina Huang\u2019s lab. Her research focuses on advancing the lab\u2019s novel nanoparticle-ribocytokine intratumoral immunotherapy toward clinical translation. She works closely on IND-enabling studies that support the [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/lab-members\/melanie-peck\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":500,"parent":19,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-474","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","author-37"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions\/557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/huang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}