ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Sarah E. Henrickson, MD, PhD, trained with Dr. Uli von Andrian at Harvard Medical School, studying the dynamics of the early stages of CD8 T cell activation using intravital multiphoton microscopy. She completed her pediatrics residency via the Integrated Research Pathway at the Boston Combined Residency Program and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), with post-doctoral work with Dr. Nir Hacohen at the Broad Institute studying susceptibility to cutaneous viral infections. Her Allergy Immunology fellowship was also completed at CHOP with post-doctoral work with Dr. John Wherry at the University of Pennsylvania, where she investigated the impact of obesity on T cell function in pediatric asthma. Dr. Henrickson started her lab at CHOP in 2019 and her group studies T cell immunometabolic dysfunction in chronic inflammatory disease and primary immune deficiency.