Clinical Fellowship

• A4M - Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine

Biology Research Course for Physician Scientists

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Post-doctoral Research - bench/translational

• University of Michigan - Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship

Clinical - Residency Experience

• Surgery/Trauma - TTHSC

Medical School

• Ross University School of Medicine - Honors - M.D. degree

Undergraduate Training

• University of California, Davis - Bachelor of Arts

Griffith, B.D., Lazarus, J., Krishnan, S., Dobrosotskaya, I., Shi, J. and Frankel, T.L., 2023. Unique characteristics of the tumor immune microenvironment in young patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Frontiers in Immunology, 14, p.1289402. 

Griffith, B.D., Turcotte, S., Lazarus, J., Lima, F., Bell, S., Delrosario, L., McGue, J., Krishnan, S., Oneka,  M.D., Nathan, H. and Smith, J.J., 2022. MHC Class II Expression Influences the Composition and Distribution of Immune Cells in the Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Microenvironment. Cancers, 14(17),  p.4092. 

Velez-Delgado, A., Donahue, K.L., Brown, K.L., Du, W., Irizarry-Negron, V., Menjivar, R.E., Opsahl, E.L.L.,  Steele, N.G., The, S., Lazarus, J. and Sirihorachai, V.R., 2022. Extrinsic KRAS signaling shapes the pancreatic microenvironment through fibroblast reprogramming. Cellular and Molecular  Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 13(6), pp.1673-1699. 

Singhal, E., Xu, T., Dhanasekara, C.S., Almekdash, H., Anamege, D., Lazarus, J., Alhaj-Saleh, A., Tucker, A.  and Dissanaike, S., 2022. Comparing outcomes between patients transferred from a critical access hospital versus directly from scene to a level 1 trauma center. The American Journal of Surgery, 224(3),  pp.828-833.

Steele, N.G., Carpenter, E.S., Kemp, S.B., Sirihorachai, V.R., The, S., Delrosario, L., Lazarus, J., Amir,  E.A.D., Gunchick, V., Espinoza, C. and Bell, S., 2020. Multimodal mapping of the tumor and peripheral blood immune landscape in human pancreatic cancer. Nature Cancer, 1(11), pp.1097-1112. 

Zhang, Yaqing, Jenny Lazarus, Nina G. Steele, Wei Yan, Ho-Joon Lee, Zeribe C. Nwosu, Christopher J.  Halbrook et al. Regulatory T cell depletion alters the tumor microenvironment and accelerates pancreatic carcinogenesis. Cancer Discovery (2020). 

Qiang Zhang, Michael D. Green, Xueting Lang, Jenny Lazarus, Joshua D. Parsels, Shuang Wei, Leslie A.  Parsels et al. Inhibition of ATM increases interferon signaling and sensitizes pancreatic cancer to immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Cancer research 79, no. 15 (2019): 3940-3951. 

Jenny Lazarus, Morgan D. Oneka, Souptik Barua, Tomasz Maj, Mirna Perusina Lanfranca, Lawrence  Delrosario, Lei Sun et al. Mathematical modeling of the metastatic colorectal cancer microenvironment defines the importance of cytotoxic lymphocyte infiltration and presence of PD-L1 on antigen presenting cells. Annals of surgical oncology 26, no. 9 (2019): 2821-2830. 

Jenny Lazarus, Yagiz Akiska, M. Lanfranca Perusina, Lawrence Delrosario, Lei Sun, Daniel Long, Jiaqi Shi  et al. Optimization, Design and Avoiding Pitfalls in Manual Multiplex Fluorescent Immunohistochemistry. Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE 149 (2019). 

Mirna Perusina Lanfranca, Yaqing Zhang, Alexander Girgis, Samantha Kasselman, Jenny Lazarus, Illona  Kryczek, Lawrence Delrosario et al. Interleukin 22 Signaling Regulates Acinar Cell Plasticity to Promote Pancreatic Tumor Development in Mice. Gastroenterology (2019). 

Frankel, T., Lazarus, J., Delrosario, L., Nathan, H. and di Magliano, M.P., 2019. Multipleximmunophenotyping reveals unique characteristics of pancreatic neoplasms. HPB, 21, pp.S313-S314. 

Christopher J. Halbrook, Corbin Pontious, Ilya Kovalenko, Laura Lapienyte, Stephan Dreyer, Ho-Joon Lee, Galloway Thurston, Yaqing Zhang,Jenny Lazarus, Peter Sajjakulnukit, Li Zhang, Hanna S. Hong,Daniel M.  Kremer, Barbara Nelson, Samantha Kemp, David Chang, Andrew Biankin, Jiaqi Shi, Timothy Frankel,  Howard C. Crawford, Jennifer P. Morton, Marina Pasca di Magliano, Costas A. Lyssiotis. Macrophage Released Pyrimidines Inhibit Gemcitabine Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer. Cell Metabolism. (2019). 

Jenny Lazarus, Tomasz Maj, J. Joshua Smith, Mirna Perusina Lanfranca, Arvind Rao, Michael I.  D’Angelica, Lawrence Delrosario, Alexander Girgis, Casey Schukow, Jinru Shia, Ilona Kryczek, Jiaqi Shi,  Isaac Wasserman, Howard Crawford, Hari Nathan, Marina Pasca Di Magliano, Weiping Zou, Timothy L.  Frankel. Spatial and phenotypic immune profiling of metastatic colon cancer. JCI Insight 3, no. 22 (2018). 

Lanfranca, Mirna Perusina, Jenny Lazarus, Xia Shao, Hari Nathan, Marina Pasca Di Magliano, Weiping  Zou, Morand Piert, and Timothy L. Frankel. Tracking macrophage infiltration in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer with the positron emission tomography tracer [11C] PBR28. Journal of Surgical  Research 232 (2018): 570-577. 

Lanfranca, Mirna Perusina, Ilona Kryczek, Andrew Rhim, Alexander Girgis, Jenny Lazarus, Marina Pasca  Di Magliano, Weiping Zou, and Timothy Frankel. IL-22 Promotes Pancreatic Cancer Tumorigenesis through Induction of Stemness and Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition. The Journal of Immunology

2019 - Colorectal Cancer Research Scholar Award SSO & Colorectal Cancer Challenge Foundation

2018 Robert V. Danto Memorial Cancer Research Award, MCACS 

2016 Travel Award, Chinese Society for Immunology, Heife, China 

2016 Travel Award, World Life Science Conference, Beijing, China 

2015 Travel Award - International Health Elective, Texas Tech Health Science Center

2001 Honor Society for Latin and Greek, University of California, Davis

2018 Chinese Society for Immunology, Shanghai, China 

2018 Cancer, Hematology, Immunology Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 

2018 Grand Rounds, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX 

2016 Chinese Society for Immunology, Heife, China