Nick Borcherding

Nick Borcherding

Assistant Professor

Washington University

Biography

Nick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University St Louis. His clinical responsibilities include human leukocyte antigen testing in the context of transplant, autoimmunity, and cancer. He recieved his MD/PhD from the University of Iowa, as part of the medical scientist training program. He was a member of the Washington University Department of Pathology and Immunology dual residency and post-doc PSTP program. He was co-mentored by Jon Brestoff and David DeNardo. His research focused on the use of innate cellular barcodes, such as mitochondrial genome and adaptive immune receptor sequences, to track immune responses and predict clinical outcomes.

In his free time, Nick likes to write R packages for the single-cell community, including scRepertoire, escape, and Trex. In addition, he has compiled the largest immune single-cell RNA/TCR data set for tumors, which is freely available to anyone.

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Interests
  • Tumor Immunology
  • Immunometabolism
  • Single-cell immune profiling
  • Adaptive immune receptor repertoire analyses
  • Open data science
Education
  • Clinical Pathology Residency, 2023

    Washington University St Louis

  • Medical Doctorate, 2020

    University of Iowa

  • PhD in Cancer Biology, 2020

    University of Iowa

  • MS in Pathology, 2014

    University of Iowa

  • BS in Nutritional Sciences, 2012

    Iowa State University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Washington University
Assistant Professor
Jul 2024 – Present Missouri
 
 
 
 
 
Omniscope
Head of Computational Biology
Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 
Omniscope
Computational Biology Advisor
Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 
Santa Ana Bio
Senior Computational Biologist and Staff Pathologist
Sep 2022 – Aug 2023 California
 
 
 
 
 
Washington University
Resident, Clinical Pathology
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023 Missouri
 
 
 
 
 
Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
MD/PhD Student
Aug 2014 – May 2020 Iowa

Recent Publications

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(2025). dandelionR: Single-cell immune repertoire trajectory analysis in R. In Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.

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(2025). Myelin-reactive CD8+ T cells influence conventional dendritic cell subsets towards a mature and regulatory phenotype in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. In Journal of Neuroinflammation.

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(2025). TIFAB modulates metabolic pathways in KMT2A::MLLT3−induced AML through HNF4A. In Blood Advances.

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(2024). Leveraging single-cell transcriptomic data to uncover immune suppressive cancer cell subsets in triple-negative canine breast cancers. In Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

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(2024). CD8+ T-cell differentiation and dysfunction inform treatment response in acute myeloid leukemia. In Blood.

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