Anthony Fredericks, who recently graduated with his MS in Biomedical Sciences from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), was awarded the MS Thesis Prize in recognition of his written dissertation, defense performance, and publication record for “CRISPR genome editing as a tool to investigate virus-host interactions: generating CD43 and RIG-I knockout myeloid cell lines.”
At the Resurgent and Emerging Diseases conference in Crete, Mr. Fredericks presented “CRISPR knock-out of the RNAi, Toll, IMD and Jak-STAT pathways reveals the relative importance of each response in virus-specific and broadly-acting antiviral immunity in mosquito cells.”
This year, he was first author of “The burden of dengue and chikungunya worldwide: implications for the southern United States and California” published in the Annals of Global Health; and is an author of “The miRNA response to dengue virus is modulated by RNH1 expression,” slated to appear in PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease.
Throughout his education, he has worked in various positions, including those of research assistant, research technician, teaching assistant, and technology specialist. During his time at ISMMS, he worked in the Fernandez-Sesma Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, namely on silencing of host factors important for influenza and DENV infections in human cells.
Mr. Fredericks was a Ford Foundation Summer Research Fellow, and entered the ISMMS Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences after earning his BA in Biology from Occidental College. He is currently pursuing his MD at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.