Autumn Lester
Diversity in Cancer Research Post-Baccalaureate Student
Yá’át’ééh, shik’éí dóó shidine’é. Shí éí Autumn Lester yinishyé. Tódích’íí’nii nishłį́, Tsi’naa jinii, bashishchiin Deeshchii’nii dashicheii, Naashtʼézhí dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́. Ahéhee’.
Autumn joined the Gurtner/Chen Lab as an American Cancer Society Diversity in Cancer Research Post-Bachelorette Fellow. She attended Northern Arizona University as an undergraduate, earning a degree in Microbiology and Pre-Medical Sciences. Her current projects focus on diabetes wound in hopes of correcting the cellular ecology of diabetic complications and finding solutions to Native American Health Disparities.