Teja Reddy is a sixth-year MD/Ph.D. Candidate at Texas A&M University College of Medicine. Teja received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience from Wellesley College. She is conducting graduate research at Houston Methodist Research Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Jenny Chang, a world-renowned clinical investigator in breast oncology. Her current research is focused on preclinical studies to develop novel therapeutic strategies against metaplastic breast cancer, a highly aggressive and chemorefractory breast cancer subtype. She is interested in investigational cancer therapeutics to treat women’s malignancies and delineating mechanisms of action of drug combinations.