Microbiology Immunology & Molecular Genetics
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Discovery Spotlights
Dr. Lili Yang - collaborative research leads to the development of novel technology that positions ‘off-the-shelf’ Cancer Immunotherapy for the Clinic.
Dr. Tim O’Sullivan – led an interdisciplinary research team that discovered a previously unknown NK cell immunodeficiency associated with the neurological syndrome MEF2C haploinsufficiency syndrome.
Dr. Kent Hill – our group’s discovery of Social Motility as an emergent behavior in African trypanosomes demonstrated that these single-celled parasites are capable of coordinating their activities as a group.
Dr. Yvonne Chen – developed a CD19/CD20 bispecific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy that was subsequently evaluated in the first investigator-initiated CAR-T cell therapy trial at UCLA.
Dr. Alex Hoffmann - Discovery of a temporal signaling code to specify immune responses.
News
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MIMG alumnus Fred Ramsdell Wins Nobel Prize
Ramsdell and two other researchers were honored for groundbreaking work on regulatory T cells in the human immune system.
Headspace Invaders: How Mosquito-Borne Viruses Breach the Brain’s Defenses
This study demonstrates the power of a stem cell-based human blood-brain barrier model.
Graduate Student Helen Huang awarded Warsaw Fellowship for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Congratulations to Helen!
Postdoctoral Researcher Jose Delgado named a recipient of the 2025 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP)
Congratulations, Jose!