Alison Ringel, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, MIT at Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH and Harvard

Alison Ringel is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at MIT and core member of the Ragon Institute. She received a bachelor's degree in molecular biology, biochemistry, and physics from Wesleyan University, then a PhD in molecular biophysics from John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Previously, Ringel was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. As is a T-cell immunologist, she investigates how environmental factors impact the immune responses that control tumorigenesis