PhD Candidate
Johns Hopkins University
Inez Lam, B.S., is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. As an inaugural Johns Hopkins-AstraZeneca Scholar, she works closely with scientists at AstraZeneca and JHU’s Institute for Computational Medicine in a novel training program providing graduate students with industry exposure. For her thesis research in Professor Feilim Mac Gabhann’s lab, Inez builds computational systems pharmacology models to understand AstraZeneca’s antibody-drug conjugates for cancer therapy and improve cancer treatments. She has published a review on systems pharmacology models of antibody-drug conjugates in CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology. Inez served as Co-President and Faculty-Student Liaison of the JHU BME PhD Council, spearheading professional development events and community-building initiatives. She co-founded and served as Co-President of Women of Whiting at JHU, a university-wide support network for over 200 graduate women in engineering, and chaired the planning committee for the initial years of the Women in STEM Symposium, attended by hundreds. Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 as a top entrepreneur, Inez co-founded and served as CTO of ClearMask, and is the main inventor and engineer of ClearMask’s transparent surgical mask, leading the product from conception to creation to 20M sold and $45M in revenue.