Postbaccalaureate Trainee
National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Marissa Davies is currently a postbaccalaureate trainee at the NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS). She has been working with Natalia Martinez, PhD in the Early Translation Branch in the Division of Preclinical Innovation since January 2022. Marissa works alongside Dr. Martinez to utilize and develop high-throughput techniques for testing various small molecules with their biological targets. Marissa’s current work uses a suite of assays to identify and characterize specific inhibitors of the Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH) family, which is implicated in many human diseases, including cancer.
Marissa received her bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Music with a minor in German from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As an undergraduate student, she studied gene patterning in the developing zebrafish kidney in the lab of Jennifer Gutzman, PhD.