Tania Jaimes, MS

Tania was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia where she first entered the research and science world at the National University of Colombia in a Food Science lab. She completed her undergraduate and master studies in Biological Engineering and Biotechnology, working with the antioxidant and biological properties of a Colombian berry. Her first interest in the biomedical field was during her master’s studies where she was able to test the berry’s antimicrobial and anti-proliferative properties during two internships in an Immunovirology lab and a Cancer lab in Colombia and Italy. She then won the Fulbright Scholarship and came to the U.S. for her PhD in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, joining the Herold Lab in 2024. Her project in the lab focuses on functionally characterizing monoclonal antibodies (mAb) based on their neutralizing and Fc-mediated antiviral activities to identify an optimal combination of mAbs for prevention and treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections.

You might find Tania staying in the lab until late rather than coming in the early morning, but equally productive. She is also very passionate about teaching and would love to delve into an academic career. Outside the lab she enjoys dancing streetstyles like hip hop, house and dancehall and she is one of the co-chairs of the Einstein Dance Club.