ShannonEssweinMD

MD-PhD Candidate at UCLA-Caltech

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I am an MD-PhD Candidate in the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program.

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLAClass of 2023
California Institute of TechnologyPhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2017 - 2021
University of CambridgeMPhil, Biochemistry, 2014 - 2015
University of California, Los AngelesBS, Physiological Sciences, 2010 - 2013

Josephine de Karman Fellowship Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, 2020
American Society for Virology Student Travel Award American Society for Virology, 2020
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award: F30 Predoctoral Individual Fellowship National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 2019-2020
Chen Graduate Innovator Grant TianQiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience, 2019
Student Research Achievement Award Biophysical Society, 2018
Jacobs Translational Medicine Fellowship California Institute of Technology, 2017
Gates Cambridge Scholarship Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014
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PubMed

7 citations
How Antibodies Recognize Pathogenic Viruses: Structural Correlates of Antibody Neutralization of HIV-1, SARS-CoV-2, and Zika.
Morgan E. Abernathy, Kim-Marie A. Dam, Shannon R. Esswein, Claudia A. Jette, Pamela J. Bjorkman
Viruses. 2021-10-19
8 citations
Gender disparities among medical students choosing to pursue careers in medical research: a secondary cross-sectional cohort analysis.
Austin Snyder, David Xiang, Alison Smith, Shannon R. Esswein, Omar Toubat
BMC Medical Education. 2021-05-27
1100 citations
SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody structures inform therapeutic strategies.
Christopher O. Barnes, Claudia A. Jette, Morgan E. Abernathy, Kim Marie A. Dam, Shannon R. Esswein
Nature. 2020-10-12

Journal Articles

Achieving selectivity in space and time with DNA double-strand-break response and repair: molecular stages and scaffolds come with strings attached
Liang S, Esswein SR, Ochi T, Wu Q, Ascher DB, Chirgadze D, Sibanda BL, Blundell TB, Structural Chemistry, 9/30/2016