Jingya Qiu, PhD Parker Scholar Early Career Researcher Biography Jingya Qiu, PhD, is a Parker Scholar and Cancer Research Institute Immuno-Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, where she is jointly mentored by Karin Pelka, PhD, and Matthew Spitzer, PhD. Her research focuses on developing strategies for early cancer detection and immunotherapeutic intervention. Dr. Qiu earned her PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Andy Minn, MD, PhD, where she investigated why many patients fail to benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors. By integrating single-cell multiomics and lineage tracing, she uncovered how cancer cells acquire epigenetic alterations in response to chronic inflammation to evade immune attack. At Gladstone and UCSF, Dr. Qiu is using spatiotemporal imaging and digital pathology to investigate how immune responses within tissue microenvironments contribute to cancer initiation. Her work aims to translate these insights into immune-based strategies for detecting and treating premalignancies before they progress to invasive cancer.