Sunny Shin

UPenn

Sunny Shin is an immunologist who studies immune mechanisms used by the host to defend itself against bacterial pathogens such as Legionella, and how bacterial pathogens evade host immunity to cause disease. She has been a strong voice in mentoring students, exemplified in a full-length article in science in which she is celled out by a mentee who said “Over the past year, it’s been so clear that Sunny cares more about me as a person than as a producer of data,” and “I want to be the kind of mentor she was to me.”