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.
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Hector Aguilar, PhD, to chair the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Please join us as we welcome Dr. Aguilar back to UCLA and to his new role as chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics.
Graduate Student Torahito (Tora) Gao receives the John W. Phillips Legacy Award
Congratulations, Tora!
Dr. Tim O’Sullivan awarded the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Award for Graduate Students
Congratulations, Dr. O'Sullivan!
MIMG Graduate Students Yennifer Delgado and Declan Winters Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations, Yennifer!