Jelani Zarif

Dr. Jelani Zarif is a prominent Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Kenneth Pienta at Johns Hopkins University's James Brady Urological Institute, specializing in prostate cancer research. He was awarded the 2016 Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Young Investigator Award and the UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowship in 2015. His research primarily targets immune cells within the prostate tumor microenvironment, aiming to understand their role in tumor growth and therapeutic resistance. Dr. Zarif earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Michigan State University, where his dissertation focused on Androgen Receptor signaling in castrate-resistant prostate cancer cells.