Understanding Immune Hubs to Improve Immunotherapy
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Our Research
Our lab studies the cellular interactions that shape immune responses in human tumors, focusing on how these responses are regulated. Using a combination of large-scale genomic analyses and tissue imaging approaches, we have identified hubs in tumor tissues where tumor cells come into close contact with immune cells. By characterizing the cells in these hubs, and the gene networks that are turned on in these cells, our lab aims to uncover novel ways to harness the immune system in the fight against cancer.
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Our People
We are a brand new lab located at the Gladstone Institutes in sunny Mission Bay looking for passionate students and postdoctoral fellows to join us in our mission to decode the cellular interaction networks that shape immune responses in human tumors. We are excited to grow into a cross-disciplinary, collaborative and diverse lab that includes clinicians, immunologists, geneticists, cancer researchers, and computational biologists.
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Recent Lab News
Karin attended the Gladstone Scientific Retreat earlier in the month along with Aditya and also visited Santa Barbara for the PICI Fall Retreat!
Aside from several grant deadlines, the lab enjoyed attending the GIGI Wine & Cheese Social and finished the month off with a lab outing at the Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park. A very busy, but a very eventful September!
After welcoming our intern Rhea in June, we said our goodbyes towards the end of August as she made her way back to Minnesota to enter her final year of college. We loved having you, Rhea, and wish you the very best in your future endeavors!
The month, earlier, was filled with grant writing, meetings, and experiments, but we ended it off with a lab lunch altogether. Not too shabby!
This month, we welcomed Jingya Qiu into our lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar - we are so happy to have you, Jingya!
We also bid farewell to Jack, our wonderful RA, as he begins his PhD journey at UC Berkeley later in the fall. You will be greatly missed and are welcome back anytime, Jack!
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