Dr. Anushka Dongre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, at Cornell University. Dr. Dongre obtained her BS and MS degrees in Microbiology from the University of Mumbai, India. Her graduate training in T-cell biology was supervised by Dr. Barbara A. Osborne, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she studied the role of non-canonical Notch signaling in regulating T-cell function. She pursued her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Robert A. Weinberg, at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, in Cambridge, MA. Here, she worked on understanding how the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) a cell-biological process that is associated with metastatic dissemination, contributes to immunosuppression and resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapies in the context of breast carcinomas. Dr. Dongre joined Cornell University in 2022. Her lab is focused on potentiating the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade therapies in poorly responding breast tumors by specifically targeting the EMT program.