Keshia Pitt attended St.
John’s University in Queens, New York for her Bachelor of Science degree in
biology. Her undergraduate lab focused on DNA nanostructures, where she modeled
versions of a three-pronged “DNA origami” claw to optimize whole-capsid viral
binding for applications in disease detection. Her dissertation research in
Makoto Senoo’s lab at Boston University Medical Campus examines the stem cell
factor p63 and its relevance to epithelial stem cell behavior in cancer. She is
currently supported by an NIH pre-doctoral fellowship. Significant progress of
Keshia Pitt's research projects has been recognized recently by a prestigious
research award at the International Stem Cell Conference held in Greece, 2019