Eileen So Carpenter, MD, PhD

Eileen received her undergraduate chemical engineering degree from the Cooper Union and her combined MD/PhD from SUNY Stony Brook University through the Medical Scientist Training Program. She then joined the University of Michigan and completed her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship through their fast-track research pathway. She recently joined faculty at the University of Michigan and has an appointment at the University of Michigan affiliate, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Her clinical practice is focused on treating patients with benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas. In her free time, she enjoys taking care of her three kids, playing the piano, volunteering at church, /and serving on the local little league board.

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Dr. Carpenter’s recent research accomplishments include establishing a pipeline using endoscopic fine needle biopsies of pancreatic tumors for a wide variety of techniques, including single-cell RNA sequencing, mass cytometry, and organoid culture. The Carpenter lab is currently focused on extending existing pipelines to study chemoresistance using longitudinal matched samples in patients pre- and post-chemotherapy, with the goal of identifying new immunotherapeutic targets to overcome chemo-refractory disease in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.