Jessica Beck, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Dr. Beck is a graduate scholar in the NIH Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program in partnership with Purdue University and the National Cancer Institute, July 2013 - December 2020.

Prior to joining the program, Dr. Beck received her D.V.M in May of 2013 from the University of Georgia. She competed her initial diagnostic pathology training and pre-dissertation research at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2015. At NCI, she is investigating the roles of cellular senescence in cancer and aging with particular focus on the use of senescence-inducing therapies in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme and on mechanisms of radiation-induced brain injury in cancer survivors.