PhD Candidate
Cornell University
Andrea Robinson is a PhD candidate in the Nutritional Sciences with concentrations in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology and Epidemiology at Cornell University. Prior to Cornell, she was a National Cancer Institute Post-baccalaureate Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she studied multi-drug resistance in cancer cells, specifically examining ABC transporters’ activity while co-expressed. Andrea received a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology in 2016, cum laude, from the University of North Texas. As a graduate student, Andrea has received the Cornell Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Robert Mozia Graduate Distinguished Service Award. Her research interest includes examining the interaction of nutrition and the immune system, specifically vitamin D and vaccine response in children, which she is doing through a systematic literature review and a secondary analysis.