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Justin joined the PIGI Lab as a Research Specialist in 2023 while completing his Master of Bioethics at the Perelman School of Medicine. His research applies synthetic biology and metabolic imaging to improve tracking of cellular therapies, engineer an electroporation system for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) intra-tumoral suicide gene delivery, and understand branched-chain amino acid metabolism to improve precision medicine paradigms for HCC. He also has contributed to projects focused on imaging kidney ischemic reperfusion injury, distinguishing genetic mutant subgroups of HCC using patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models, and implementing the first hyperpolarized carbon imaging clinical trial for HCC. Justin is currently a medical student at the University of Rochester.