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    Macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (green) which have been stained for inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) shown in red, an enzyme that catalyzes the production of nitric oxide from L-arginine to restrict bacterial growth. The nucleus of the infected cells is shown in blue. Credit: Miljan Stupar
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    Intestinal inflammation with epithelial cells (green) exhibiting cell death (marked by cleaved caspase 3 in red). Credit: Dr. G. Sonnenberg.
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    Innate lymphocytes (red and green) interacting with microbiota-specific regulatory T cells (blue, green and cyan) in lymphoid tissues. Credit: Dr. G. Sonnenberg.
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    Mycobacterium smegmatis elongates predominantly from one of the two cells poles. Credit: of Drs. H. Botella and S. Ehrt.

    Our Students

    Entering Classes

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    IMP 2025 with labs

     

    Student Awards: 
    • Elina Wells, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    • Rachel Lorenc, ASCI-PSSF Fellowship, ASH Graduate Hematology Fellowship
    IMP 2024 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Catherine Somoza, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    • Cristian Ovies, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Kasra Askari, NSF GRFP Fellowship, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    • Qi Jun (Andrew) Lim, A*STAR Fellowship 
    IMP 2023 with labs
    IMP 2023 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Ana Campos Codo, HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship, Rita Levi Montalcini Scholarship
    • Charles Carr, WCGS "Jacques Cohenca" Predoctoral Fellowship
    • Claire Wingert, HSS T32 Fellowship
    • Emre Cardakli, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Eric Yiyang Wang, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Esther Lee, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Fitty Liu, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Itzayana Miller, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Sherry Fan, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Sofia Dimitriadoy, MSKCC Barbara and Stephen Friedman Graduate Fellowship
    • Victoria Lawless, NIH F30 Fellowship
    IMP 2022 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Cristine (Nicole) Salinas, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Daniel Wong, AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
    • Ian McBain, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Joshua Morrison, MSKCC Anna Maria and Stephen Kellen Predoctoral Fellowship
    • Shane Vedova, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Sufia Bakshi, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Yasmine Issah, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship, NIH F31 Fellowship
    IMP 2021 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Alberto Herrera, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Brittany Robaina-Caicedo, NSF GRFP Fellowship, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    • Cheryl Mai, NIH F30 Fellowship, MSKCC Dorris J. Hutchison Graduate Fellowship
    • Dean Matthews, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Hannah Carrow, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship, WCM CTSC-TL1 Fellowship, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Jee Hye Kang, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy RISE Fellowship, JW Lee Jong-ho Foundation Scholarship
    • Nazia Sakila, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Sophia Qu, NSF GRFP Fellowship
    IMP 2020 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Amanda Chen, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Dasom Kim, MSKCC Center for Experimental Immuno-Oncology Fellowship
    • Gayathri Shibu, MSKCC Marie-Josée Kravis Women in Science Fellowship
    • Jez Marston, NIH F30 Fellowship, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    • Joseph Gladstone, NCI CURE supplement
    • Logan Fisher, MSKCC Houghton-Coit Fellowship
    • Mark Owyong, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Noemi Linden, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Doctoral Scholarship
    • Ryann Callaghan, WCM-IMP T32 Fellowship, MSKCC Center for Experimental Immuno-Oncology Fellowship
    • Svetlana Miakicheva, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Tanmana Mitra, MSKCC Dorris J. Hutchison Graduate Fellowship
    • Yoselin Paucar, HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, WCM IMSD-T32 Fellowship
    IMP 2019 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Brooke Fiedler, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Winston Chang, MSKCC Center for Experimental Immuno-Oncology Fellowship
    • Zhaoquan (Shasha) Wang, WCM-IMP T32 Fellowship
    IMP 2018 with labs

     

    Student Awards:
    • Deeksha Deep, NIH F30 Fellowship, MSKCC Barbara and Stephen Friedman Fellowship
    • Joy Hsu, WCM-IMP 32 Fellowship
    • Kathleen Mills, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Paolo Giovanelli, MSKCC Dorris J. Hutchison Graduate Fellowship
    • Regina Bou Puerto, MSKCC Marie-Josée Kravis Women in Science Fellowship
    • Thais Klevorn, NSF GRFP Fellowship
    • Woan-Yu Lin, WCGS Merit Fellowship, Government Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Taiwan)
    IMP 2017 Class

     

    Student Awards:
    • Alexander Emmanuelli, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Alexandra Miller, NIH F30 Fellowship
    • Andrew Daman, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Anthony Michaels, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Christopher Bourne, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • Sofia Elena Vaccarino Gearty, NIH F30 Fellowship
    IMP 2016 Class

     

    Student Awards:
    • Laura Menocal, MSKCC Dorris J. Hutchison Graduate Fellowship, Yale Ciencia Academy Fellowship Award for Scientific Leaders, Janssen SODEP Scholar
    • Maeva Metz, HSS T32 Fellowship, NSF GRFP Fellowship
    • Sarah Schrader, NIH F30 Fellowship
    IMP 2015 Class

     

    Student Awards
    • Chantal Harris, NIH F31 Fellowship
    • John "Benji" Grigg, NIH F31 Fellowship
    Student Publications

    Since 1990, IMP students have published hundreds of papers. Below are a few of these publications to illustrate the kinds of research our doctoral students have done: 

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    MEK-Dependent Bioenergetic Demand Drives Terminal CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion. 

    Mitra, Tanmana, Jahan Rahman, Madeline Hwee, Yan-Ting Chen, Ruben Jose Jesus Faustino Ramos, Hui Liu, Travis Hartman, Justin Cross, Miguel de Jesus, Morgan Huse, Valerie Longo, Pat Zanzonico, and Santosha A. Vardhana. Immunity 59(8):2215-2231.e9. 2026-08-01. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2026.06.012. (Research article)

     

    LEF1 and Niche Factors Determine T Cell Stemness across Chronic Diseases. 

    Miakicheva, Svetlana*, Katrina M. Hawley*, Paul Zumbo, Sofia V. Gearty, Simon Grassmann, Brianna Naizir, Edison Chiu, Sandra Carson, Michael Kissner, Mark Owyong, Yunlin Zhang, Robert Washburn, Joseph C. Sun, Ronan Chaligné, Steven L. Reiner, Ivan Maillard, Doron Betel, and Andrea Schietinger. Cell 189(14):4325-4341.e10. 2026-07-09.  doi:10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.022. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Control of Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer. 

    Gladstone, Joseph L., and Gregory F. Sonnenberg. Cell Metabolism 38(7):1297–1314. 2026-07-07. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2026.04.018. (Review paper)

     

    SPP1hi Macrophages in Fibrin Niches Promote Hyperplastic Tissue Remodeling in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovium. 

    Mantel, Ian*, Haoxuan Zhang*, Juan Vargas, Gao Ce, Hope Townsend, Richard Bell, Amit Lakhanpal, Miriam R. Fein, Accelerating Medicines Partnership: RA/SLE Network, Thomas M. Norman, Dana E. Orange, Daniel C. Ramirez, Edward F. DiCarlo, Susan M. Goodman, Melanie H. Smith, Fan Zhang, Kevin Wei, Kushal K. Dey, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Christina S. Leslie, and Laura T. Donlin. Science Translational Medicine 18(855):eaed3087. 2026-06-24. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aed3087. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Molecular Determinants of NK Cell Memory. 

    Owyong, Mark, and Joseph C. Sun. Trends in Immunology 47(6):480–94. 2026-06-01. doi:10.1016/j.it.2026.01.009. (Review paper)

     

    Microbiota Regulation of Gut-Brain Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Early Life. 

    Ravisankar, Purnima, Daniel S. H. Wong, and Melody Y. Zeng. International Immunology 38(5):282–95. 2026-05-01. doi:10.1093/intimm/dxaf076. (Review paper)

     

    A Periplasmic Protein Complex Mediates Arabinofuranosyltransferase Activity and Intrinsic Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. 

    Klevorn, Thaís, Christopher Brown, Christine D. Hardy, Bonnie J. Cuthbert, Amanda Spencer, Adrián Jinich, Luming Chan, Shiva K. Angala, Jordan Manzer, Jessica Mendoza, Rodger de Miranda, Heather Kim, Dirk Schnappinger, Mary Jackson, Kyu Rhee, Celia W. Goulding, and Sabine Ehrt. Science Advances 12(14):eaec5100. 2026-04-11. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aec5100. (Research article)

     

    Polystyrene Microplastic-Induced Pathophysiology Is Driven by Disruption of Efferocytosis. 

    Codo, Ana C., Jesus E. Romero-Pichardo, Zhaoquan Wang, Mariano A. Aufiero, Tomi Lazarov, Waleska Saitz Rojas, Nicole S. Walker, Achuth Nair, Roger F. Cole, Savannah Adkins, Edward Dong, Kelvin Fadojutimi, Celia Martínez de la Torre, Yael David, Tobias M. Hohl, Frederic Geissmann, Kayvan R. Keshari, Christopher D. Lucas, and Justin S. A. Perry. Immunity 59(3):618-636.e11. 2026-03-10. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2026.01.009. (Research article)

     

    Human iPSC-Derived Alveolar Macrophages Reveal Macrophage Subtype Functions of Itaconate in M. Tuberculosis Defense. 

    Krebs, Adam S., Tomi Lazarov, Anthony T. Reynolds, Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland, Abigail Xie, James M. Bean, Muxue Du, Olivier Levy, John A. Buglino, Aaron Zhong, Anna-Lena Neehus, Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Elouise E. Kroon, Marlo Möller, Thomas R. Hawn, Ting Zhou, Lydia W. S. Finley, Marc Antoine Jean Juste, Dan W. Fitzgerald, Frederic Geissmann, and Michael S. Glickman. JCI Insight 11(5). 2026-03-09. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.198342. (Research article)

     

    Dynamic Antigen Expression and Cytotoxic T Cell Resistance in HIV Reservoir Clones. 

    Ferreira, Isabella A. T. M.*, Alberto Herrera*, Tan Thinh Huynh, Emily Stone, Noemi L. Linden, Cristian Ovies, Yanqin Ren, Cintia Bittar, Virender K. Pal, Ethan Naing, Parul Sinha, Ali Danesh, Eva Stevenson, Shane Vedova, Fitty Liu, Louise Leyre, Skylar Shea, Elina Wells, Itzayana G. Miller, Marie Canis, Ana Rafaela Teixeira, Susan Moir, Tae-Wook Chun, Colin Kovacs, Madeleine S. Gastonguay, Alison L. Hill, Shy Genel, Paul Zumbo, Doron Betel, Elias K. Halvas, Guinevere Q. Lee, Rachel Scheck, Marina Caskey, Paul D. Bieniasz, Nathan L. Board, Michel C. Nussenzweig, and R. Brad Jones. Nature 653(8115):850–60. 2026-02-24. doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10298-w. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Ontogeny and Transcriptional Regulation of Thetis Cells. 

    Paucar Iza, Yoselin A., Tyler Park, Eliyambuya Baker, Gayathri Shibu, Tilman Hoelting, Greyson Feather, Anushka Yadav, Yollanda Franco Parisotto, Zihan Zhao, Blossom Akagbosu, Marc Elosua Bayes, Logan Fisher, Lucas M. James, Jianping Ma, Benjamin D. Philpot, Behdad Afzali, Christina Leslie, and Chrysothemis C. Brown. Nature 653(8114):538–47. 2026-02-03. doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10198-z. (Research article)

     

    Neuro-Epithelial Circuits Promote Sensory Convergence and Intestinal Immunity. 

    Zhang, Wen*, Elizabeth R. Emanuel*, Hiroshi Yano, Jazib Uddin, Stephen Gaudino, Zili Xie, Hiroshi Ichise, Zhen Wang, Maureen N. Cowan, Mengze Lyu, Xiaoxiao Hou, Peng Zeng, Elin Hu, Victoria Ribeiro de Godoy, Alex Grier, Nina Estep, Julien R. Ishibashi, Stephanie Anover-Sombke, Peter J. Skene, Toufic Mayassi, Ramnik J. Xavier, Ronald N. Germain, Anna-Maria Globig, Maximilian Heeg, Ananda W. Goldrath, Brian S. Kim, Hongzhen Hu, and David Artis. Nature 651(8105):440–50. 2026-01-07. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09921-z. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Between ROS and a Hard Place: Telomere Damage as a Driver of T-Cell Exhaustion. 

    Mitra, Tanmana, and Santosha A. Vardhana. Cancer Research 86(1):10–11. 2026-01-01. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-25-4716. (Review paper)

    HIV Nef Amplifies Mechanical Heterogeneity to Promote Immune Evasion. 

    Leyre, Louise, Farah Mustapha, Alberto Herrera, Esther Lee, Emily Huntsman, Paul Zumbo, Jared Weiler, Parul Sinha, Ethan Naing, Connor Smith, Colin Kovacs, Micheal Galiano, Nada Wahman, Doron Betel, Kiera L. Clayton, Morgan Huse, and R. Brad Jones. 2025-12-24. bioRxiv, 2025.12.24.696400. (Preprint)

     

    Sequential Lymphotoxin-β Receptor and Retinoic Acid Receptor Signals Regulate cDC2 Fate. 

    Nguyen, Albert A., Logan Fisher*, Jennifer S. Y. Ahn, Michelle Zuo, Tyler Park, Anushka Yadav, Miki S. Gams, Kei Haniuda, Dragos C. Dasoveanu, Conglei Li, Lesley A. Ward, Angela A. Wang, Zakieh Tayyebi, Daria Trofimova, Trevor McKee, Cathy L. Mendelsohn, John S. Allingham, Cynthia J. Guidos, Blandine Maître, Jennifer L. Gommerman, and Chrysothemis C. Brown. Nature Immunology 26(12):2159–69. 2025-11-21. doi:10.1038/s41590-025-02329-x. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    E. Coli-Activated Cellular Circuit Restrains Intestinal Inflammatory Microbiota-Specific T Cells and Protects against Colitis. 

    Kim, Dasom V., Amanda Chen, Charles Ng, Lisette Peres-Tintin, Seung-Eun Park, Monica Acosta, Ryann Callaghan, Nikketa Stanford, Miozzottys Perez-Rosario, Dean B. Matthews, Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz, and Gretchen E. Diehl. Cell Reports 44(10):116332. 2025-10-28. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116332. (Research article)

     

    Temporal and Context-Dependent Requirements for the Transcription Factor Foxp3 Expression in Regulatory T Cells. 

    Hu, Wei*, Gabriel A. Dolsten*, Eric Y. Wang*, Giorgi Beroshvili*, Zhong-Min Wang, Aazam P. Ghelani, Lion F. K. Uhl, Regina Bou-Puerto, Xiao Huang, Anthony J. Michaels, Beatrice E. Hoyos, Wenjie Jin, Yuri Pritykin, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Nature Immunology 26(11):2059–73. 2025-10-08. doi:10.1038/s41590-025-02295-4. (Research article)

     

    Microbial Cancer Immunotherapy Reprograms Hematopoiesis to Enhance Myeloid-Driven Anti-Tumor Immunity. 

    Daman, Andrew W.*, Anthony C. Antonelli*, Gil Redelman-Sidi, Lucinda Paddock, Shireen Khayat, Mythili Ketavarapu, Jin Gyu Cheong, Leonardo F. Jurado, Anna Benjamin, Song Jiang, Dughan Ahimovic, Victoria R. Lawless, Michael J. Bale, Oleg Loutochin, Victor A. McPherson, Maziar Divangahi, Rachel E. Niec, Dana Pe’er, Eugene Pietzak, Steven Z. Josefowicz, and Michael S. Glickman. Cancer Cell 43(8):1442-1459.e10. 2025-08-11. doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2025.05.002. *Equal contribution (Research article)

     

    Early Life High Fructose Impairs Microglial Phagocytosis and Neurodevelopment. 

    Wang, Zhaoquan, Allie Lipshutz, Celia Martínez de la Torre, Alissa J. Trzeciak, Zong-Lin Liu, Isabella C. Miranda, Tomi Lazarov, Ana C. Codo, Jesús E. Romero-Pichardo, Achuth Nair, Tanya Schild, Waleska Saitz Rojas, Pedro H. V. Saavedra, Ann K. Baako, Kelvin Fadojutimi, Michael S. Downey, Frederic Geissmann, Giuseppe Faraco, Li Gan, Jon Iker Etchegaray, Christopher D. Lucas, Marina Tanasova, Christopher N. Parkhurst, Melody Y. Zeng, Kayvan R. Keshari, and Justin S. A. Perry. Nature 644(8077):759–68. 2025-06-11. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09098-5. (Research article)

     

    Cutting Edge: Cooperative Interferon Regulatory Factor Network Shapes the NK-Cell Antiviral Response. 

    Santosa, Endi K., Jennifer M. Zhang, John C. Sauter, Mark Owyong, and Joseph C. Sun. The Journal of Immunology 214(6):1141–46. 2025-06-01. doi:10.1093/jimmun/vkaf041. (Research article)

     

    Germline-Targeting HIV Envelope SOSIP Immunization More Frequently Elicits Broadly-Neutralizing Antibody Precursor Responses in Infant Compared to Juvenile Rhesus Macaques. 

    Issah, Yasmine A., Xintao Hu, John Isaac, Xiaoying Shen, Dominique Davis, Gabriel Ozorowski, Leigh M. Sewall, Shiyu Zhang, Euchong Kang, Kenneth Vuong, Maria Dennis, Jui-lin Chen, John M. Ramos, Anila Yasmeen, Joshua Eudailey, Albert Cupo, Carolyn Weinbaum, Hongmei Gao, Sherry Stanfield-Oakley, Guido Ferrari, P. J. Klasse, Genevieve Fouda, Michael Hudgens, Andrew B. Ward, David C. Montefiori, Rogier W. Sanders, John P. Moore, Koen K. A. Van Rompay, Kristina De Paris, Sallie R. Permar, and Ashley N. Nelson. 2025-05-27. bioRxiv, 2025.05.27.656273. (Preprint)

     

    Defining Molecular Circuits of CD8+ T Cell Responses in Tissues during Latent Viral Infection. 

    Santosa, Endi K., Jennifer M. Zhang, John C. Sauter, Mariah E. Lee, Brandon D. Ng, Sigrun V. Stulz, Meril Takizawa, Simon Grassmann, Orr-El Weizman, Nicholas M. Adams, Ronan Chaligné, Annette Oxenius, Georg Gasteiger, Colleen M. Lau, and Joseph C. Sun. Journal of Experimental Medicine 222(8):e20242078. 2025-05-19. doi:10.1084/jem.20242078. (Research article)

     

    IL-10 Targets IRF Transcription Factors to Suppress IFN and Inflammatory Response Genes by Epigenetic Mechanisms. 

    Mishra, Bikash, Mahesh Bachu, Ruoxi Yuan, Claire Wingert, Vidyanath Chaudhary, Caroline Brauner, Richard Bell, and Lionel B. Ivashkiv. Nature Immunology 26(5):748–59. 2025-04-22. doi:10.1038/s41590-025-02137-3. (Research article)

     

    IL-2Rα Is Dispensable for Murine B Cell Development and Humoral Response. 

    Chowdhury, Priyanka, Kalina T. Belcheva, Ryan M. Smolkin, Montserrat Cols, Jason D. Fontenot, William T. Yewdell, and Jayanta Chaudhuri. The Journal of Immunology 214(4):694–702. 2025-04-01. doi:10.1093/jimmun/vkae045. (Research article)

     

    GM-CSF–Mediated Epithelial-Immune Cell Cross-Talk Orchestrates Pulmonary Immunity to Aspergillus Fumigatus. 

    Mills, Kathleen A. M., Frederike Westermann, Vanessa Espinosa, Eric Rosiek, Jigar V. Desai, Mariano A. Aufiero, Yahui Guo, Fitty L. Liu, Kennedy A. Mitchell, Selma Tuzlak, Donatella De Feo, Michail S. Lionakis, Amariliz Rivera, Burkhard Becher, and Tobias M. Hohl. Science Immunology 10(105):eadr0547. 2025-03-21. doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.adr0547. (Research article)

     

    Splenic TNF-α Signaling Potentiates the Innate-to-Adaptive Transition of Antiviral NK Cells. 

    Mujal, Adriana M.*, Mark Owyong*, Endi K. Santosa, John C. Sauter, Simon Grassmann, Anna-Marie Pedde, Philippa Meiser, Claire K. Wingert, Marine Pujol, Veit R. Buchholz, Colleen M. Lau, Jan P. Böttcher, and Joseph C. Sun. 2025. “.” Immunity 58(3):585-600.e6. 2025-03-11. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2025.02.012. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Terminal Differentiation and Persistence of Effector Regulatory T Cells Essential for Preventing Intestinal Inflammation. 

    Dikiy, Stanislav, Aazam P. Ghelani, Andrew G. Levine, Stephen Martis, Paolo Giovanelli, Zhong-Min Wang, Giorgi Beroshvili, Yuri Pritykin, Chirag Krishna, Xiao Huang, Ariella Glasner, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Christina S. Leslie, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Nature Immunology 26(3):444–58. 2025-02-04. doi:10.1038/s41590-024-02075-6. (Research paper)

     

    IL-21 Shapes the B Cell Response in a Context-Dependent Manner. 

    Kim, Youngjun, Francesca Manara, Simon Grassmann, Kalina T. Belcheva, Kanelly Reyes, Hyunu Kim, Stephanie Downs-Canner, William T. Yewdell, Joseph C. Sun, and Jayanta Chaudhuri. Cell Reports 44(1):115190. 2025-01-28. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.115190. (Research article)

    High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Development and Anti-PD-1 Resistance Is Driven by IRE1α Activity in Neutrophils. 

    Emmanuelli, Alexander, Camilla Salvagno, Sung-Min Hwang, Deepika Awasthi, Tito A. Sandoval, Chang-Suk Chae, Jin-Gyu Cheong, Chen Tan, Takao Iwawaki, and Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz. OncoImmunology 13(1):2411070. 2024-12-31. doi:10.1080/2162402X.2024.2411070. (Research article)

     

    Multi-Omic Atlas Reveals Cytotoxic Phenotype and ROS-Linked Metabolic Quiescence as Key Features of CTL-Resistant HIV-Infected CD4+ T-Cells. 

    Herrera, Alberto*, Louise Leyre*, Jared Weiler, Noemi Luise Linden, Tan Thinh Huynh, Feng Wang, Colin Kovacs, Marina Caskey, Paul Zumbo, Maider Astorkia Amiama, Sandra Terry, Ya-Chi Ho, Doron Betel, and R. Brad Jones. 2024-12-22. bioRxiv, 2024.12.22.629960. *Equal contribution. (Preprint)

     

    Fungal Symbiont Transmitted by Free-Living Mice Promotes Type 2 Immunity. 

    Liao, Yun*, Iris H. Gao*, Takato Kusakabe, Woan-Yu Lin, Alexander Grier, Xiangyu Pan, Olga Morzhanaeva, Terrance P. Shea, Hiroshi Yano, Danielle Karo-Atar, Kaitlin A. Olsen, Ji Hoon Oh, Kurt J. Vandegrift, Irah L. King, Christina A. Cuomo, David Artis, Barbara Rehermann, Neil Lipman, and Iliyan D. Iliev. Nature 636(8043):697–704. 2024-11-27. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08213-2. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Disrupting the RNA Polymerase II Transcription Cycle through CDK7 Inhibition Ameliorates Inflammatory Arthritis

    Chen, Xi, Gayathri Shibu, Baila A. Sokolsky, Tamar Nicole Soussana, Logan Fisher, Dinesh K. Deochand, Marija Dacic, Ian Mantel, Daniel C. Ramirez, Richard D. Bell, Tinghu Zhang, Laura T. Donlin, Susan M. Goodman, Nathanael S. Gray, Yurii Chinenov, Robert P. Fisher, and Inez Rogatsky. Science Translational Medicine 16(774):eadq5091. 2024-11-20. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5091. (Research article)

     

    Precursor Central Memory versus Effector Cell Fate and Naïve CD4+ T Cell Heterogeneity. 

    Deep, Deeksha*, Herman Gudjonson*, Chrysothemis C. Brown, Samuel A. Rose, Roshan Sharma, Yoselin A. Paucar Iza, Seunghee Hong, Saskia Hemmers, Michail Schizas, Zhong-Min Wang, Yuezhou Chen, Duane R. Wesemann, Virginia Pascual, Dana Pe’er, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Journal of Experimental Medicine 221(10):e20231193. 2024-09-25. doi:10.1084/jem.20231193. *Equal contribution (Research article)

     

    Identification of a Mesodermal Progenitor for the Pro-Definitive Angio-Hematopoietic Lineage. 

    Lazarov, Tomi, Pierre-Louis Loyher, Hairu Yang, Zi-Ning Choo, Zihou Deng, Sonja Nowotschin, Ying-Yi Kuo, Ting Zhou, Araitz Alberdi-Gonzalez, Ralf Stumm, Elvira Mass, Elisa Gomez Perdiguero, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, and Frederic Geissmann. 2024-08-24. bioRxiv, 2024.08.24.609533. (Preprint)

     

    Epithelial Responses to Fungal Pathogens. 

    Mills, Kathleen A. M., Mariano A. Aufiero, and Tobias M. Hohl. Current Opinion in Microbiology 80:102508. 2024-08-01. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2024.102508. (Review paper)

     

    Type I Interferon Exacerbates Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Induced Human Macrophage Death. 

    Lee, Angela M., and Carl F. Nathan. EMBO Reports 25(7):15. 2024-06-12. doi:10.1038/s44319-024-00171-0. (Review paper)

     

    Interruption of Mycothiol Synthesis and Intracellular Redox Status Impact Iron-Regulated Reporter Activation in Mycobacterium Smegmatis. 

    Miller, Alexandra H., Frances Marks, Luming Chan, Helene Botella, Dirk Schnappinger, and Sabine Ehrt. Microbiology Spectrum 12(7):e00487-24. 2024-06-11. doi:10.1128/spectrum.00487-24. (Research article)

     

    Vaccinia Virus: Mechanisms Supporting Immune Evasion and Successful Long-Term Protective Immunity. 

    Hsu, Joy, Suyon Kim, and Niroshana Anandasabapathy. Viruses 16(6):870. 2024-05-29. doi:10.3390/v16060870. (Review paper)

     

    Epithelial-Neuronal-Immune Cell Interactions: Implications for Immunity, Inflammation, and Tissue Homeostasis at Mucosal Sites. 

    Emanuel, Elizabeth, Mohammad Arifuzzaman, and David Artis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 153(5):1169–80. 2024-05-11. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2024.02.004. (Review paper)

     

    The IFN-γ/STAT1 Axis Regulates Intestinal Stem Cells and Epithelial Regeneration during Gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease. 

    Chang, Winston, Shuichiro Takashima, Roshan Sharma, Marco Calafiore, Ya-Yuan Fu, Takahiro Ito, Anastasiya Egorova, Jason Kuttiyara, Endi Santosa, Joseph Sun, and Alan Hanash. The Journal of Immunology 212:1547_4246. 2024-05-01. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.212.supp.1547.4246. (Research article)

     

    IL-6 Receptor Blockade Prevents Polarization of pro-Fibrotic Macrophages in Myeloid-Rich RA Synovial Tissue. 

    Mantel, Ian, Anvita Singaraju, Hope Townsend, Amit Lakhanpal, Fan Zhang, and Laura Donlin. The Journal of Immunology 212(1_Supplement):0437_4813. 2024-05-01. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.212.supp.0437.4813. (Research article)

     

    The Potency of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Reprogramming for Changing Immune Tone.

     Daman, Andrew W., Jin Gyu Cheong, Laura Berneking, and Steven Z. Josefowicz. Immunological Reviews 323(1):197–208. 2024-04-17. doi:10.1111/imr.13335. (Review paper)

     

    Onco-Circuit Addiction and Onco-Nutrient mTORC1 Signaling Vulnerability in a Model of Aggressive T Cell Malignancy. 

    Wang, Xinxin, Andrew E. Cornish, Mytrang H. Do, Julia S. Brunner, Ting-Wei Hsu, Zijian Xu, Isha Malik, Chaucie Edwards, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Xian Zhang, Mark H. Ginsberg, Lydia W. S. Finley, Megan S. Lim, Steven M. Horwitz, and Ming O. Li. 2024-04-03. bioRxiv, 2024.04.03.587917. (Preprint)

     

    Interferons and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Training, Priming and Tolerance of Monocytes and Hematopoietic Progenitors. 

    Mishra, Bikash, and Lionel B. Ivashkiv. Immunological Reviews 323(1):257–75. 2024-04-03. doi:10.1111/imr.13330. (Review paper)

     

    Early Life Imprinting of Intestinal Immune Tolerance and Tissue Homeostasis. 

    Paucar Iza, Yoselin A., and Chrysothemis C. Brown. Immunological Reviews 323(1):303–15. 2024-03-19. doi:10.1111/imr.13321. (Review paper)

     

    Enterococcal-Host Interactions in the Gastrointestinal Tract and Beyond. 

    Madani, Wiam Abdalla Mo, Yusibeska Ramos, Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, and Diana K. Morales. FEMS Microbes 5:xtae027. 2024-01-01. doi:10.1093/femsmc/xtae027. (Review paper)

    Neutrophil-Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Interaction Leads to Production of Type I IFN in Response to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. 

    Lee, Angela M., Paôline Laurent, Carl F. Nathan, and Franck J. Barrat. European Journal of Immunology 54(3):2350666. 2023-12-31. doi:10.1002/eji.202350666. (Research article)

     

    Control of Nutrient Uptake by IRF4 Orchestrates Innate Immune Memory. 

    Santosa, Endi K., Hyunu Kim, Timo Rückert, Jean-Benoît Le Luduec, Aamna J. Abbasi, Claire K. Wingert, Lila Peters, Joe N. Frost, Katharine C. Hsu, Chiara Romagnani, and Joseph C. Sun. Nature Immunology 24(10):1685–97. 2023-09-11. doi:10.1038/s41590-023-01620-z. (Research article)

     

    Host Interactions with Engineered T-Cell Micropharmacies. 

    Bourne, Christopher M., Patrick Wallisch, Megan M. Dacek, Thomas J. Gardner, Stephanie Pierre, Kristen Vogt, Broderick C. Corless, Mamadou A. Bah, Jesus E. Romero-Pichardo, Angel Charles, Keifer G. Kurtz, Derek S. Tan, and David A. Scheinberg. Cancer Immunology Research 11(9):1253–65. 2023-09-01. doi:10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-22-0879. (Research article)

     

    Epigenetic Memory of Coronavirus Infection in Innate Immune Cells and Their Progenitors. 

    Cheong, Jin-Gyu, Arjun Ravishankar, Siddhartha Sharma, Christopher N. Parkhurst, Simon A. Grassmann, Claire K. Wingert, Paoline Laurent, Sai Ma, Lucinda Paddock, Isabella C. Miranda, Emin Onur Karakaslar, Djamel Nehar-Belaid, Asa Thibodeau, Michael J. Bale, Vinay K. Kartha, Jim K. Yee, Minh Y. Mays, Chenyang Jiang, Andrew W. Daman, Alexia Martinez de Paz, Dughan Ahimovic, Victor Ramos, Alexander Lercher, Erik Nielsen, Sergio Alvarez-Mulett, Ling Zheng, Andrew Earl, Alisha Yallowitz, Lexi Robbins, Elyse LaFond, Karissa L. Weidman, Sabrina Racine-Brzostek, He S. Yang, David R. Price, Louise Leyre, André F. Rendeiro, Hiranmayi Ravichandran, Junbum Kim, Alain C. Borczuk, Charles M. Rice, R. Brad Jones, Edward J. Schenck, Robert J. Kaner, Amy Chadburn, Zhen Zhao, Virginia Pascual, Olivier Elemento, Robert E. Schwartz, Jason D. Buenrostro, Rachel E. Niec, Franck J. Barrat, Lindsay Lief, Joseph C. Sun, Duygu Ucar, and Steven Z. Josefowicz. Cell 186(18):3882-3902.e24. 2023-08-31. (Research article)

     

    Clonally Expanded CD38hi Cytotoxic CD8 T Cells Define the T Cell Infiltrate in Checkpoint Inhibitor–Associated Arthritis. 

    Wang, Runci*, Anvita Singaraju*, Kathryne E. Marks, Lorien Shakib, Garrett Dunlap, Ifeoluwakiisi Adejoorin, Stinne R. Greisen, Lin Chen, Aidan K. Tirpack, Carlos Aude, Miriam R. Fein, Derrick J. Todd, Lindsey MacFarlane, Susan M. Goodman, Edward F. DiCarlo, Elena M. Massarotti, Jeffrey A. Sparks, A. Helena Jonsson, Michael B. Brenner, Michael A. Postow, Karmela K. Chan, Anne R. Bass, Laura T. Donlin, and Deepak A. Rao. Science Immunology 8(85):eadd1591. 2023-07-28. doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.add1591. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Emerging synovial cell states in rheumatoid arthritis as potential therapeutic targets. 

    Mantel, Ian, Miriam R. Fein & Laura T. Donlin. Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 35(4), 249–254. 2023-07-01. doi: 10.1097/BOR.0000000000000940 (Review paper)

     

    Physiology and Diseases of Tissue-Resident Macrophages. 

    Lazarov, Tomi, Sergio Juarez-Carreño, Nehemiah Cox, and Frederic Geissmann. Nature 618(7966):698–707. 2023-06-21. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06002-x. (Review paper)

     

    Assessing in Vivo Presentation of Exogenous Antigen in the Tumor Microenvironment in Mice. 

    Nixon, Briana G., Liangliang Ji, and Ming O. Li. STAR Protocols 4(2):102185. 2023-06-16. doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102185. (Protocol paper)

     

    Group-3 Innate Lymphoid Cells Protect from Intestinal Inflammation via Syndecan-4. 

    Fiedler, Brooke Elizabeth, Wenqing Zhou, Ann Joseph, and Gregory F. Sonnenberg. The Journal of Immunology 210(Supplement_1):228.06. 2023-05-01. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.210.Supp.228.06. (Research article)

     

    Principles of Regulatory T Cell Function. 

    Dikiy, Stanislav, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Immunity 56(2):240–55. 2023-02-14. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2023.01.004. (Review paper)

    TGFβ Control of Immune Responses in Cancer: A Holistic Immuno-Oncology Perspective. 

    Nixon, Briana G., Shengyu Gao, Xinxin Wang, and Ming O. Li. Nature Reviews Immunology 23(6):346–62. 2022-11-15. doi:10.1038/s41577-022-00796-z. (Review paper)

     

    Tumor-Associated Macrophages Expressing the Transcription Factor IRF8 Promote T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer. 

    Nixon, Briana G., Fengshen Kuo, LiangLiang Ji, Ming Liu, Kristelle Capistrano, Mytrang Do, Ruth A. Franklin, Xiaodi Wu, Emily R. Kansler, Raghvendra M. Srivastava, Tanaya A. Purohit, Alejandro Sanchez, Lynda Vuong, Chirag Krishna, Xinxin Wang, Herbert C. Morse III, James J. Hsieh, Timothy A. Chan, Kenneth M. Murphy, James J. Moon, A. Ari Hakimi, and Ming O. Li. Immunity 55(11):2044-2058.e5. 2022-11-08. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2022.10.002. (Research article)

     

    The Structure-Selective Endonucleases GEN1 and MUS81 Mediate Complementary Functions in Safeguarding the Genome of Proliferating B Lymphocytes. 

    Fernandez, Keith Conrad, Laura Feeney, Ryan M. Smolkin, Wei-Feng Yen, Allysia J. Matthews, William Alread, John HJ Petrini, and Jayanta Chaudhuri. Edited by W.-D. Heyer, J. K. Tyler, and W.-D. Heyer. eLife 11:e77073. 2022-10-13. doi:10.7554/eLife.77073. (Research article)

     

    Potential Multi-Modal Effects of Provirus Integration on HIV-1 Persistence: Lessons from Other Viruses. 

    Linden, Noemi, and R. Brad Jones. Trends in Immunology 43(8):617–29. 2022-08-01. doi:10.1016/j.it.2022.06.001. (Review paper)

     

    Unmasking the Suppressed Immunopeptidome of EZH2-Mutated Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas through Combination Drug Treatment. 

    Bourne, Christopher M., Sung Soo Mun, Tao Dao, Zita E. H. Aretz, Zaki Molvi, Ron S. Gejman, Andrew Daman, Katsuyoshi Takata, Christian Steidl, Martin G. Klatt, and David A. Scheinberg. Blood Advances 6(14):4107–21. 2022-07-15. doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006069. (Research article)

     

    Tumor-Induced Double Positive T Cells Display Distinct Lineage Commitment Mechanisms and Functions. 

    Schad, Sara E., Andrew Chow, Levi Mangarin, Heng Pan, Jiajia Zhang, Nicholas Ceglia, Justina X. Caushi, Nicole Malandro, Roberta Zappasodi, Mathieu Gigoux, Daniel Hirschhorn, Sadna Budhu, Masataka Amisaki, Monica Arniella, David Redmond, Jamie Chaft, Patrick M. Forde, Justin F. Gainor, Matthew D. Hellmann, Vinod Balachandran, Sohrab Shah, Kellie N. Smith, Drew Pardoll, Olivier Elemento, Jedd D. Wolchok, and Taha Merghoub. Journal of Experimental Medicine 219(6):e20212169. 2022-05-23. doi:10.1084/jem.20212169. (Research article)

     

    Inflammatory Responses in the Placenta upon SARS-CoV-2 Infection Late in Pregnancy. 

    Argueta, Lissenya B., Lauretta A. Lacko, Yaron Bram, Takuya Tada, Lucia Carrau, André Figueiredo Rendeiro, Tuo Zhang, Skyler Uhl, Brienne C. Lubor, Vasuretha Chandar, Cristianel Gil, Wei Zhang, Brittany J. Dodson, Jeroen Bastiaans, Malavika Prabhu, Sean Houghton, David Redmond, Christine M. Salvatore, Yawei J. Yang, Olivier Elemento, Rebecca N. Baergen, Benjamin R. tenOever, Nathaniel R. Landau, Shuibing Chen, Robert E. Schwartz, and Heidi Stuhlmann. iScience 25(5). 2022-05-20. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104223. (Research article)

     

    An Activation to Memory Differentiation Trajectory of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes Informs Metastatic Melanoma Outcomes.

     Jaiswal, Abhinav, Akanksha Verma, Ruth Dannenfelser, Marit Melssen, Itay Tirosh, Benjamin Izar, Tae-Gyun Kim, Christopher J. Nirschl, K. Sanjana P. Devi, Walter C. Olson, Craig L. Slingluff, Victor H. Engelhard, Levi Garraway, Aviv Regev, Kira Minkis, Charles H. Yoon, Olga Troyanskaya, Olivier Elemento, Mayte Suárez-Fariñas, and Niroshana Anandasabapathy. Cancer Cell 40(5):524-544.e5. 2022-05-09. doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2022.04.005. (Research article)

     

    Alloreactive T Cells Deficient of the Short-Chain Fatty Acid Receptor GPR109A Induce Less Graft-versus-Host Disease. 

    Docampo, Melissa D., Marina B. da Silva, Amina Lazrak, Katherine B. Nichols, Sophia R. Lieberman, Ann E. Slingerland, Gabriel K. Armijo, Yusuke Shono, Chi Nguyen, Sebastien Monette, Emmanuel Dwomoh, Nicole Lee, Clair D. Geary, Suelen M. Perobelli, Melody Smith, Kate A. Markey, Santosha A. Vardhana, Anastasia I. Kousa, Eli Zamir, Itamar Greenfield, Joseph C. Sun, Justin R. Cross, Jonathan U. Peled, Robert R. Jenq, Christoph K. Stein-Thoeringer, and Marcel R. M. van den Brink. Blood 139(15):2392–2405. 2022-04-14. doi:10.1182/blood.2021010719. (Research article)

    Division of Labor between SOS and PafBC in Mycobacterial DNA Repair and Mutagenesis. 

    Adefisayo, Oyindamola O., Pierre Dupuy, Astha Nautiyal, James M. Bean, and Michael S. Glickman. Nucleic Acids Research 49(22):12805–19. 2021-12-16. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab1169. (Research article)

     

    Antigen-Presenting Innate Lymphoid Cells Orchestrate Neuroinflammation. 

    Grigg, John B., Arthi Shanmugavadivu, Tommy Regen, Christopher N. Parkhurst, Anees Ahmed, Ann M. Joseph, Michael Mazzucco, Konrad Gronke, Andreas Diefenbach, Gerard Eberl, Timothy Vartanian, Ari Waisman, and Gregory F. Sonnenberg. Nature 600(7890):707–12. 2021-12-01. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04136-4. (Research article)

     

    An Autoimmune Stem-like CD8 T Cell Population Drives Type 1 Diabetes. 

    Gearty, Sofia V., Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, Gabriel Espinosa-Carrasco, Mojdeh Shakiba, Francisco J. Sanchez-Rivera, Nicholas D. Socci, Prerak Trivedi, Scott W. Lowe, Peter Lauer, Neeman Mohibullah, Agnes Viale, Teresa P. DiLorenzo, Doron Betel, and Andrea Schietinger. Nature 602(7895):156–61. 2021-11-30. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04248-x. (Research article)

     

    T Cells in Harmony: Aligning the TCR Repertoire Pool to Identify Microbiota Recognizing T Cells. 

    Chen, Amanda, and Gretchen E. Diehl. Immunity 54(11):2437–39. 2021-11-09. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2021.10.008. (Review paper)

     

    Delivery of Membrane Impermeable Molecules to Primary Mouse T Lymphocytes. 

    Xu, Ke, and Ming O. Li. STAR Protocols 2(3):100757. 2021-09-17. (Protocol paper)

     

    Multiform Antimicrobial Resistance from a Metabolic Mutation. 

    Schrader, Sarah M., Hélène Botella, Robert Jansen, Sabine Ehrt, Kyu Rhee, Carl Nathan, and Julien Vaubourgeix. Science Advances 7(35):eabh2037. 2021-08-27. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh2037. (Research article)

     

    Altered Function and Differentiation of Age-Associated B Cells Contribute to the Female Bias in Lupus Mice. 

    Ricker, Edd, Michela Manni, Danny Flores-Castro, Daniel Jenkins, Sanjay Gupta, Juan Rivera-Correa, Wenzhao Meng, Aaron M. Rosenfeld, Tania Pannellini, Mahesh Bachu, Yurii Chinenov, Peter K. Sculco, Rolf Jessberger, Eline T. Luning Prak, and Alessandra B. Pernis. Nature Communications 12(1):4813. 2021-08-10. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25102-8. (Research article)

     

    Epigenetic and Transcriptional Control of Interferon-β. 

    Daman, Andrew W., and Steven Z. Josefowicz. Journal of Experimental Medicine 218(9):e20210039. 2021-07-23. doi:10.1084/jem.20210039. (Review paper)

     

    Diet-Regulated Production of PDGFcc by Macrophages Controls Energy Storage. 

    Cox, Nehemiah*, Lucile Crozet*, Inge R. Holtman, Pierre-Louis Loyher, Tomi Lazarov, Jessica B. White, Elvira Mass, E. Richard Stanley, Olivier Elemento, Christopher K. Glass, and Frederic Geissmann. Science 373(6550):eabe9383. 2021-07-02. doi:10.1126/science.abe9383. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Glycolytic ATP Fuels Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Signaling to Support Effector T Helper 17 Cell Responses. 

    Xu, Ke, Na Yin, Min Peng, Efstathios G. Stamatiades, Sagar Chhangawala, Amy Shyu, Peng Li, Xian Zhang, Mytrang H. Do, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Chun Chou, Christina S. Leslie, and Ming O. Li. Immunity 54(5):976-987.e7. 2021-05-11. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2021.04.008. (Research article)

     

    Immunotherapy Breaches Low-Sugar Dieting of Tumor Treg Cells. 

    Campbell, Clarissa, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Cell Metabolism 33(5):851–52. 2021-05-04. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2021.04.010. (Review paper)

     

    Adherent-Invasive E. Coli Metabolism of Propanediol in Crohn’s Disease Regulates Phagocytes to Drive Intestinal Inflammation. 

    Viladomiu, Monica*, Maeva L. Metz*, Svetlana F. Lima, Wen-Bing Jin, Lance Chou, Chun-Jun Guo, Gretchen E. Diehl, Kenneth W. Simpson, Ellen J. Scherl, and Randy S. Longman. Cell Host & Microbe 29(4):607-619.e8. 2021-04-14. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2021.01.002. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Glycolysis Fuels Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Signaling to Bolster T Cell Immunity. 

    Xu, Ke, Na Yin, Min Peng, Efstathios G. Stamatiades, Amy Shyu, Peng Li, Xian Zhang, Mytrang H. Do, Zhaoquan Wang, Kristelle J. Capistrano, Chun Chou, Andrew G. Levine, Alexander Y. Rudensky, and Ming O. Li. Science 371(6527):405–10. 2021-01-22. doi:10.1126/science.abb2683. (Research article)

    Nuclear Receptor LXRβ Controls Fitness and Functionality of Activated T Cells. 

    Michaels, Anthony J., Clarissa Campbell, Regina Bou-Puerto, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Journal of Experimental Medicine 218(4):e20201311. 2020-12-29. doi:10.1084/jem.20201311. (Research article)

     

    FXR Mediates T Cell-Intrinsic Responses to Reduced Feeding during Infection. 

    Campbell, Clarissa, Francois Marchildon, Anthony J. Michaels, Naofumi Takemoto, Joris van der Veeken, Michail Schizas, Yuri Pritykin, Christina S. Leslie, Andrew M. Intlekofer, Paul Cohen, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(52):33446–54. 2020-12-29. doi:10.1073/pnas.2020619117. (Research article)

     

    A Tug-of-War Over Methionine. 

    Xu, Ke, Amy Shyu, and Ming O. Li. 2020. Cell Metabolism 32(5):699–701.2020-11-03. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2020.10.016. (Review paper)

     

    Transcription Cofactor GRIP1 Differentially Affects Myeloid Cell–Driven Neuroinflammation and Response to IFN-β Therapy

    Mimouna, Sanda*, David A. Rollins*, Gayathri Shibu, Bowranigan Tharmalingam, Dinesh K. Deochand, Xi Chen, David Oliver, Yurii Chinenov, and Inez Rogatsky. Journal of Experimental Medicine 218(1):e20192386. 2020-10-12. doi:10.1084/jem.20192386. *Equal contribution. (Research article)

     

    Natural Killer Cell Responses to Emerging Viruses of Zoonotic Origin. 

    Diaz-Salazar, Carlos, and Joseph C Sun. Current Opinion in Virology 44:97–111. 2020-10-01. doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2020.07.003. (Review paper)

     

    Coordinated Viral Control by Cytotoxic Lymphocytes Ensures Optimal Adaptive NK Cell Responses. 

    Diaz-Salazar, Carlos, and Joseph C. Sun. Cell Reports 32(12):108186. 2020-09-22. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108186. (Research paper)

     

    Selective Dysregulation of ROCK2 Activity Promotes Aberrant Transcriptional Networks in ABC Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. 

    Ricker, Edd, Akanksha Verma, Rossella Marullo, Sanjay Gupta, Chao Ye, Tania Pannellini, Michela Manni, Wayne Tam, Giorgio Inghirami, Olivier Elemento, Leandro Cerchietti, and Alessandra B. Pernis. Scientific Reports 10(1):13094. 2020-08-04. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69884-1. (Research article)

     

    Serine-Threonine Kinase ROCK2 Regulates Germinal Center B Cell Positioning and Cholesterol Biosynthesis.

    Ricker, Edd, Yurii Chinenov, Tania Pannellini, Danny Flores-Castro, Chao Ye, Sanjay Gupta, Michela Manni, James K. Liao, and Alessandra B. Pernis. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 130(7):3654–70. 2020-07-01. doi:10.1172/JCI132414. (Research article)

     

    Bacterial Metabolism of Bile Acids Promotes Generation of Peripheral Regulatory T Cells. 

    Campbell, Clarissa, Peter T. McKenney, Daniel Konstantinovsky, Olga I. Isaeva, Michail Schizas, Jacob Verter, Cheryl Mai, Wen-Bing Jin, Chun-Jun Guo, Sara Violante, Ruben J. Ramos, Justin R. Cross, Krishna Kadaveru, John Hambor, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Nature 581(7809):475–79. 2020-04-15. (Research article)

     

    Cell-Intrinsic Adrenergic Signaling Controls the Adaptive NK Cell Response to Viral Infection. 

    Diaz-Salazar, Carlos, Regina Bou-Puerto, Adriana M. Mujal, Colleen M. Lau, Madlaina von Hoesslin, Dietmar Zehn, and Joseph C. Sun. Journal of Experimental Medicine 217(4):e20190549. 2020-02-11. doi:10.1084/jem.20190549. (Research article)

    TOX Is a Critical Regulator of Tumour-Specific T Cell Differentiation.

     Scott, Andrew C., Friederike Dündar, Paul Zumbo, Smita S. Chandran, Christopher A. Klebanoff, Mojdeh Shakiba, Prerak Trivedi, Laura Menocal, Heather Appleby, Steven Camara, Dmitriy Zamarin, Tyler Walther, Alexandra Snyder, Matthew R. Femia, Elizabeth A. Comen, Hannah Y. Wen, Matthew D. Hellmann, Niroshana Anandasabapathy, Yong Liu, Nasser K. Altorki, Peter Lauer, Olivier Levy, Michael S. Glickman, Jonathan Kaye, Doron Betel, Mary Philip, and Andrea Schietinger. Nature 571(7764):270–74. 2019-06-17. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1324-y. (Research article)

    Extrathymically Generated Regulatory T Cells Establish a Niche for Intestinal Border-Dwelling Bacteria and Affect Physiologic Metabolite Balance. 

    Campbell, Clarissa, Stanislav Dikiy, Shakti K. Bhattarai, Takatoshi Chinen, Fanny Matheis, Marco Calafiore, Beatrice Hoyos, Alan Hanash, Daniel Mucida, Vanni Bucci, and Alexander Y. Rudensky. Immunity 48(6):1245-1257.e9. 2018-06-19. (Research article)

     

    Tissue-Resident Cytolytic Innate Lymphocytes in Cancer. 

    Nixon, Briana G., and Ming O. Li. The Journal of Immunology 200(2):408–14. 2018-01-01. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1701124. (Review paper)

    Career Outcomes

    IMP graduates have successfully embarked upon a variety of careers, including academic faculty positions and research positions in industry. Below is a representation of some of our IMP alumni, their current positions, and the lab they trained in as a graduate student at WCGS over the years:

    Name

    Year Entered

    Thesis Lab

    Graduation Year

    Current Position

    Brittany Robaina-Caicedo

    2021

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2023, MS

    Senior Analyst at Solvias

    Nazia Sakila

    2021

    Kyu Rhee

    2025

    Continuing her MD. training at Weill Cornell Medicine

    Dasom Kim

    2020

    Gretchen Diehl

    2025

    Scientist, Nilo Therapeutics

    Jez Lim Marston

    2020

    Ethel Cesarman

    2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr Ethel Cesarman at Weill Cornell Medicine

    Tanmana Mitra

    2020

    Santosha Vardhana

    2026

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell at The University of Chicago

    Anvita Singaraju

    2019

    Laura Donlin

    2024

    Postdoctoral Associate in the lab of Dr. Nunzio Bottini at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Brooke Fiedler (Towers)

    2019

    Gregory Sonnenberg

    2026

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Ruth Franklin at Harvard University

    Louise Leyre

    2019

    Brad Jones

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Brad Jones at Weill Cornell Medicine

    Tomi Lazarov

    2019

    Frederic Geissmann

    2023

    Scientific Research Lead in the lab of Frederic Geissmann at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Winston Chang

    2019

    Alan Hanash

    2026

    Postdoctoral Associate at Broad Institute/MIT

    Zhaoquan (Shasha) Wang

    2019

    Justin Perry

    2025

    Schmidt Science Fellow in the lab of Dr. Gül Dölen at University of California, Berkeley

    Abhinav Jaiswal

    2018

    Niroshana Anandasabapathy

    2023

    Scientist at Regeneron

    Adam Krebs

    2018

    Michael Glickman

    2024

    Senior Biomedical Engineer and Immunologist at Draper

    Beibei (Bella) Fang

    2018

    Alexander Rudensky

    2026

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Mengtong Li at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Bikash Mishra

    2018

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv at Hospital for Special Surgery

    Deeksha Deep

    2018

    Alexander Rudensky

    2023

    Internal Medicine Resident at Weill Cornell Medicine

    Dughan Ahimovic

    2018

    Steven Josefowicz

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr.Steven Josefowicz at Weill Cornell Medicine

    Ian Mantel

    2018

    Laura Donlin

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Laura Donlin at Hospital for Special Surgery

    Joy Hsu

    2018

    Niroshana Anandasabapathy

    2025

    Equity Research Associate at Leerink Partners

    Kathleen Mills

    2018

    Tobias Hohl

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Darrell Kotton and Dr. Kostas Alysandratos at Boston University

    Paolo Giovanelli

    2018

    Alexander Rudensky

    2026

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Alexander Rudensky at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Woan-Yu Lin

    2018

    Iliyan Iliev

    2024

    Research Scientist, Rare Disease at RTW Foundation

    Alexander Emmanuelli

    2017

    Juan Cubillos-Ruiz

    2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Marcus D. Goncalves at NYU Langone Health

    Alexandra Miller

    2017

    Sabine Ehrt

    2022

    Internal Medicine Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital

    Andrew Daman

    2017

    Steven Josefowicz

    2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr.Christopher Glass at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

    Anthony Michaels

    2017

    Alexander Rudensky

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Alexander Rudensky at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Christopher Bourne

    2017

    David Scheinberg

    2023

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

    Endi Santosa

    2017

    Joseph Sun

    2024

    Postdoctoral Fellow at Genentech

    Harmanjit Bansal

    2017

    Sabine Ehrt

    2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine

    JinGyu Cheong

    2017

    Steven Josefowicz

    2023

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Rachel Niec at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Sofia Elena Vaccarino Gearty

    2017

    Andrea Schietinger

    2021

    Rheumatology Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    Youngjun Kim

    2017

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2024

    Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow in the Department for BioMedical Research at University of Bern

    Carlos Diaz Salazar Albelda

    2016

    Joseph Sun

    2020

    Scientific Researcher at Hospital del Mar Research Institute

    Diana Tran

    2016

    Morgan Huse

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Amgen

    Jake Batchelder

    2016

    Scott Blanchard

    2023

    Biotechnology Equity Research Associate at William Blair

    Keith Fernandez

    2016

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Caroline Sokol at Massachusetts General Hospital

    Laura Menocal

    2016

    Andrea Schietinger

    2025

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

    Maeva Metz

    2016

    Randy Longman

    2022

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Emily P. Balskus at Harvard University

    Sara (Schad) Clarke

    2016

    Jedd Wolchok

    2021

    Vice President, Blue Owl Healthcare Opportunities at Blue Owl Capital

    Sarah Schrader

    2016

    Carl Nathan

    2021

    Medical Microbiology Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital

    Andrew Scott

    2015

    Andrea Schietinger

    2020

    Principal Scientist at Stealth Mode Biotech

    Anthony Antonelli

    2015

    Michael Glickman

    2021

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Immunology Discovery & Research Oncology at Genentech

    Chantal Harris

    2015

    Bjorn Kafsack

    2022

    Postdoctoral Fellow at Genentech

    John "Benji" Grigg

    2015

    Gregory Sonnenberg

    2022

    Manager, Clinical Scientist at Regeneron

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    2015

    Joao Xavier

    2020

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Dermatology T32 Fellow & Resident Physician, Dermatology at Northwestern Medicine

    Priyanka Chowdhury

    2015

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2022

    Immunologist at Amgen

    Sohn Kim

    2015

    Eric Pamer

    2019

    Gastroenterology Fellow in the lab of Jonathan P. Jacobs

    Xi (Theo) Chen

    2015

    Inez Rogatsky

    2023

    Senior Associate in Biotech Equity Research at BMO Capital Markets

    Jim Castellanos

    2014

    Randy Longman

    2018

    Physician-Scientist, Anesthesiologist/Immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine & HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow, Instructor in Clinical Investigation at the Rockefeller University

    Lissenya Argueta

    2014

    Heidi Stuhlmann

    2022

    Assistant Director, Clinical Research Methodology at Worldwide Clinical Trials

    Mojdeh Shakiba

    2014

    Andrea Schietinger

    2021

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. David Tuveson at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Mytrang (Mia) Do

    2014

    Ming Li

    2019

    Dermatopathology Fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Oyindamola Adefisayo

    2014

    Michael Glickman

    2021

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Clare Smith at Duke University

    Pooja Khanna

    2014

    Selina Chen-Kiang

    2017, MS

    Senior Scientist at Merck

    Stanislav Dikiy

    2014

    Alexander Rudensky

    2021

    CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Howard C. Hang at Scripps Research

    Xinxin Wang

    2014

    Ming Li

    2023

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Ming Li at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Briana Nixon

    2013

    Ming Li

    2020

    LSRF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor at Columbia University

    Brittany Lewis

    2013

    Eric Pamer

    2017

    Primary Care Physician at the UC San Diego Health

    Clair Geary

    2013

    Joseph Sun

    2019

    Associate Medical Director at Alphabet Health

    Melissa Docampo

    2013

    Marcel Van den Brink

    2020

    Scientific Director at Symbiotix

    Meredith Wright Whitaker

    2013

    Sabine Ehrt

    2019

    Senior Director, Medical Strategy at Bond and Matter

    Minkyung Song

    2013

    Juan Cubillos-Ruiz

    2019

    Assistant Professor, Integrative Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University

    Nora Pyenson

    2013

    Luciano Marraffini

    2019

    LSRF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the lab of Dr. Jonas Schluter at NYU Langone Health

    Xiying Fan

    2013

    Alexander Rudensky

    2018

    Assistant Professor, Dermatology, School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine

    Anthony Kusnadi

    2012

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2018

    Technical Development Senior Scientist at Roche

    Ching-La Lu

    2012

    Eric Pamer

    2017

    Instructor in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

    Edd Ricker

    2012

    Alessandra Pernis

    2018

    Chief Resident at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center

    Katherine Montelione

    2012

    2014, MS

    General surgeon based in Cleveland, OH

    Krista Dubin

    2012

    Eric Pamer

    2018

    Physician in Anesthesiology based in Seattle, WA

    Maria A. Sacta

    2012

    Inez Rogatsky

    2017

    Attending Physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Max Chomet

    2012

    2015, MS

    Biology Teacher at the Bronx High School of Science

    Rajat Singh

    2012

    Ari Melnick

    2018

    Medical Consultant at Every Cure

    Ruojun (RJ) Wang

    2012

    Sabine Ehrt

    2019

    Clinical Trial Manager at Medpace

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    2012

    Kirk Deitsch & Laura Kirkman

    2017

    Associate Director Translational Medicine at Bicara Therapeutics

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    2012

    Theresa Lu

    2018

    Clinical dermatologist based in Pasadena, CA

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    2011

    Alexander Rudensky

    2016

    Clinical Instructor at the University of California, San Francisco

    Clarissa Campbell Menezes

    2011

    Alexander Rudensky

    2019

    Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Vienna

    David Rollins

    2011

    Inez Rogatsky

    2017

    Physician in Anesthesiology based in San Diego, CA

    Jennifer (Young) Chia

    2011

    Theresa Lu

    2016

    Clinical Instructor in Hematopathology at UCLA

    Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv

    2011

    Grégoire Altan-Bonnet

    2016

    Assistant Professor, Systems Biology at Harvard University

    Jennifer Tsai

    2011

    Marcel Van den Brink

    2017

    Hematology Oncology Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Jing Tian

    2011

    Carl Nathan

    2016

    Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Kan Lin

    2011

    Sabine Ehrt

    2017

    Partner, Managing Director at Hankang Capital

    Kihyun Lee

    2011

    Danwei Huangfu

    2018

    Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University

    Ritama Gupta

    2011

    Stefano Rivella

    2017

    Director, Clinical Transparency Communications at Merck

    Shashirekha Mundhra

    2011

    Carl Nathan

    2017

    Associate Program Officer at The Helmsley Charitable Trust

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    2010

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2016

    Director, Lab Head, Translational Biology, Type 2 Immunology cluster at Sanofi

    Joon Seok Park

    2010

    Alexander Tarakhovsky & Alexander Rudensky

    2016

    Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago

    Joris van der Veeken

    2010

    Alexander Rudensky

    2018

    Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna BioCenter

    Kerry Boyle

    2010

    Joao Xavier

    2017

    Cofounder Boyle Tutoring

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    2010

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2016

    Associate Professor, Immunology at Chungbuk National University

    Sharline Madera

    2010

    Joseph Sun

    2015

    Senior Director Clinical Research at Merck

    Weizhen Xu

    2010

    Sabine Ehrt

    2017

    Senior Bioinformatician at Annogen

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    2009

    Carl Nathan

    2014

    Senior Clinical Director at Merck

    Charlie Buffie

    2009

    Eric Pamer

    2014

    Medical Officer, Division of Gastroenterology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at FDA

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    2009

    Alexander Rudensky

    2013

    Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco

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    2009

    Xuejun Jiang

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    Senior Manager, Global Regulatory Strategy at Regeneron

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    2009

    Michael Glickman

    2014

    Medical Director at The Lockwood Group

    Lauren J. Dimenna

    2009

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2015

    Freelance Medical Writer

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    2009

    Eric Pamer

    2014

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College

    Nichole Goodsmith

    2009

    Sabine Ehrt

    2014

    Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA & Staff Psychiatrist at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

    Rachel Niec

    2009

    Alexander Rudensky

    2013

    Assistant Attending Physician, Assistant Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Weill Cornell Graduate School

    Robert Samstein

    2009

    Alexander Rudensky

    2012

    Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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    2009

    Eric Pamer

    2015

    Program Officer, Microbiome Products at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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    2009

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    2015

    Senior Software Engineer at Kinship

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    2009

    Michel Sadelain

    2013

    In memorium

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    2008

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    2013

    Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow and Group Leader at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

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    2008

    Anne Moscona

    2013

    Assistant professor, Dept. of Microbiology, St.Xavier's College

    Hitesh Bhattarai

    2008

    Michael Glickman

    2014

    Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology at Kathmandu University

    Jennifer Small Saunders

    2008

    Sabine Ehrt

    2012

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases at Columbia University

    Judy Murphy

    2008

    Jedd Wolchok

    2014

    SVP, Medical Strategy at Inizio Evoke

    Karen Tkach Tuzman

    2008

    Gregoire Altan-Bonnet

    2014

    Director of Biopharma Intelligence at BioCentury Inc.

    Melissa (Cabinian) Kinnebrew

    2008

    Eric Pamer

    2012

    Dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente Cumberland Medical Center

    MyoungJoo Kim

    2008

    Ming Li

    2014

    Principal Scientist at Moderna

    Nicole Malandro

    2008

    Jedd Wolchok

    2015

    External Innovation Partner at Astellas Pharma

    Peter Chang

    2008

    Michel Sadelain

    2016

    Director of Business Development at GenomeFrontier Therapeutics, Inc.

    Priya Darshinee Issuree

    2008

    Jane Salmon

    2014

    Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa

    Ruth Franklin

    2008

    Ming Li

    2014

    Associate Professor, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University

    Tyler Janovitz

    2008

    Michel Sadelain

    2013

    Director, Genomic Analysis Senior Pathologist and Associate Medical Director at Foundation Medicine

    Uday Ganapathy

    2008

    Sabine Ehrt

    2015

    Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Sciences at Hackensack Meridian Health School of Medicine & Assistant Member at Center for Discovery & Innovation

    Xiaodi Su

    2008

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2014

    Vice President at Lilly Asia Ventures

    Xin Liu

    2008

    Morgan Huse

    2014

    Research Associate Professor, School of Basic Medical Sciences at Tsinghua University

    Eleanor (Tyler) Maughan

    2007

    Richard O'Reilly

    2013

    Senior Vice President, Medical Strategy at Real Chemistry

    Jesse (Cotari) Coward

    2007

    Gregoire Altan-Bonnet

    2012

    Founder & CEO of Stealth Startup

    Linda Huynh

    2007

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2013

    Lead Research Editor at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

    Moses Donkor

    2007

    Ming Li

    2012

    Director, Transational Medicine at AstraZeneca

    Poonam Rath

    2007

    Carl Nathan

    2013

    AI & Data Science Consultant

    Samantha Palmer

    2007

    Anne Moscona

    2012

    Executive Director - Portfolio Strategy, Management & Commercialization at Amgen

    Sung Ho Park

    2007

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2012

    Professor, Life Science at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

    Tzu-Yun (Chrissy) Kuo

    2007

    Richard O'Reilly

    2016

    Principal at Avego

    Xiao Peng

    2007

    Alexander Rudensky

    2017

    Assistant Professor, Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, CHAM at Montefiore Health System

    Allysia Matthews

    2006

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2013

    Scientific Program Manager for the Human and Translational Immunology Program and Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology at Yale School of Medicine

    Chao Shi

    2006

    Eric Pamer

    2011

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Charles M. Rice at the Rockefeller University (2012-2013)

    Jee Hyun Kim

    2006

    Dirk Schnappinger

    2012

    Consultant, Clinical Science at CG Oncology

    Jessica Schneider

    2006

    Michael Glickman

    2013

    Chief Scientific Officer at Corundum Systems Biology & Co-Founder at Stealth Biotech & Board Member at ImYoo

    Maria Lebron

    2006

    Sabine Ehrt

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    Senior Principal Scientist, Loxo Oncology at Lilly

    Simin Zheng

    2006

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2013

    Research Scientist at MediSix Therapeutics

    Xiaozhou (Sheldon) Fan

    2006

    James Allison

    2012

    Senior Research Associate at Capital Group

    Xing (Dandan) Xu

    2006

    Robert Klein

    2014

    VP, Managed Services, part of Precision for Medicine at QuartzBio

    Ying Hou

    2006

    Aihao Ding

    2012

    Director, External Medical Engagement, Inflammation & RD at Amgen

    Aditya Venugopal

    2005

    Carl Nathan

    2010

    Chief Business Officer at Alentis Therapeutics

    Amanda Holland

    2005

    Marcel Van den Brink

    2012

    Scientific editor and medical writer

    Gabrielle Rizzuto

    2005

    Alan Houghton

    2008

    Assistant Member/Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Jamie Flammer

    2005

    Inez Rogatsky

    2010

    SVP, Medical Director, Medical Strategy & Scientific Affairs at BGB Group

    John Markley

    2005

    Michel Sadelain

    2009

    Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF

    Julia Foldi

    2005

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2011

    Assistant Professor and Breast Medical Oncologist at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

    Kang Chen

    2005

    Andrea Cerutti

    2009

    Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University

    Rachel Gottschalk

    2005

    James Allison

    2011

    Assistant Professor, Integrative Systems Biology at the Deptartment of Immunology, Univ. of Pittsburgh

    Urszula Nowak

    2005

    Jayanta Chaudhuri

    2010

    IP Litigator at Foley Hoag LLP

    Jamieson Bretz

    2004

    Selina Chen-Kiang

    2009

    Vice President, Content Operations at Medscape

    Janice Chen

    2004

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2010

    Executive Director, R&D at Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.

    Jenny Tzeng

    2004

    Theresa Lu

    2010

    Associate Director at Bioscience Immunology, AstraZeneca

    Jie Fan

    2004

    Nikola Pavletich

    2010

    Founder and CEO at AccutarBio

    Ting Jia

    2004

    Eric Pamer

    2008

    Octagon Capital Advisors at Founder and Managing Member

    Virginia Pedicord

    2004

    James Allison

    2010

    Assistant Professor, Immunology at University of Cambridge Department of Medicine and Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID)

    Aimee Beaulieu

    2003

    Carl Nathan

    2009

    Assistant Professor & Chancelor Scholar at Rutgers Medical School

    Lucy Kappel

    2003

    Marcel Van den Brink

    2009

    Vice President, Head of Oncology Business Development at Regeneron

    Michael Seidman

    2003

    William Muller

    2008

    Medical Director of Surgical Pathology, Laboratory Medicine Program at University Health Network

    Nicolas Stephanou

    2003

    Michael Glickman

    2008

    Head of Genetics, Precision Medicine & Clinical Dx leader at Unilabs

    Sheetal Gandotra

    2003

    Sabine Ehrt

    2008

    Assistant Professor, Host–Pathogen Interactions at CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

    Utthara Nayar

    2003

    Ethel Cesarman

    2011

    Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins University

    Fang Fang Yin

    2002

    Aihao Ding

    2008

    Director, Clinical Development at Gilead Sciences

    Matthias Stephan

    2002

    Michel Sadelain

    2007

    Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center

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    2002

    Derek St.Angelo

    2009

    Human Rights Activist at United Nations

    Xinzheng (Victor) Guo

    2002

    Sabine Ehrt

    2010

    Senior Principal Scientist at Genentech

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    2001

    Eric Pamer

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    Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences at Princeton University

    Elaine Yee Lin Chung

    2001

    Xiaojing Ma

    2007

    Clinical Data Analyst at Montefiore Health System

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    2001

    Nikola Pavletich

    2009

    Associate Professor of Biochemistry at North Carolina State University

    Kyung-Hyun Park-Min

    2001

    Lionel Ivashkiv

    2007

    Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Hospital for Special Surgery

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    2007

    Research Investigador at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (UT)

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    2000

    John Moore

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    2000

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    2005

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    Lionel Ivashkiv

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    Professor, Ophthalmology at Stanford University

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    2000

    Carl Nathan

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    Michel Sadelain

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    Attending Physician in Urologic Surgery, Urologic Oncology based in Pueblo, CO

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    P. Leif Bergsagel

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    Director and Group Leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine

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    Carl Nathan

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    Selina Chen-Kiang

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    Sunjung Kim

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    Xiaojing Ma

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    Associate Professor at Feinstein Institute for Medical Research-Hofstra School of Medicine

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    Elaine Schattner

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    1997

    Paolo Casali

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    Chief Business Officer at Receptive Bio

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    1997

    Carl Nathan

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    Senior Scientist at Merck

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    Carl Nathan

    2003

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    Joseph L Amprey III

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    Carl Nathan

    2002

    CEO and Founder at Zero Point Five Therapeutics

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    1997

    Alan Houghton

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    Andras Schaffer

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    Paolo Casali

    2001

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    Gregory St John

    1996

    Carl Nathan

    2001

    VP Medical Affairs at Nektar Therapeutics

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    1996

    Janko Nikolic-Zugic

    2001

    Acting Vice President for Research at the University of Kentucky

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    1996

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    2002

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    1996

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    2002

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    1996

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    Head of Research at Lupus Research Alliance

    Alexander M Owyang

    1995

    Hsiou-Chi Liou

    2001

    Senior Director, Nonclinical Pharmacology at JLSa2 Therapeutics, Inc.

    Michael Shiloh

    1995

    Carl Nathan

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    James P. Luby, M.D. Professor of Infectious Diseases at UT Southwestern

    Richard Huard

    1995

    Paolo Casali

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    Chief, Center for Biological Science Laboratories (Microbiology and Biological Threats) at the Rhode Island Department of Health

    Joseph R Tumang

    1994

    Hsiou-Chi Liou

    2000

    Associate Vice President - Preclinical and Immunology at Eli Lilly and Company

    Calin Dan Dumitru

    1993

    Jeffrey Ravetch

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    1993

    Carl Nathan

    1999

    Professor of Immunology and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Cornell University

    Michelle R Tourigny

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    Howard Petrie

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    Radiographer at Capital Radiology

    Tonya L Villafana

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    Elizabeth Lacy

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    Carl Nathan

    1997

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    William J Netzer

    1991

    Hartl Franz-Ulrich

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    Guest Investigator at the Rockefeller University

    Gregory Bannish

    1990

    Janet Lee

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    Alan Houghton

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    Associate Professor, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

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