Dr. Mellissa “Missy” Hicks Nixon ’10 is an Immunologist at Rubius Therapeutics. She graduated from the biology department in 2010, obtained her doctorate from The Ohio State University in 2014 and completed a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2018. With over 12 peer reviewed research articles, she has contributed to the advancement of cancer therapeutics, from small molecules to immune checkpoint blockades and most recently live cell therapies. Dr. Nixon has received several young investigator awards from The Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Research Symposium. She is currently residing in Boston, MA with her husband Ben and daughter Savannah.