Dr. Michael Birnbaum, 2020 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
About Michael Birnbaum
Dr. Birnbaum, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, received the 2020 Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research for “Repertoire-Scale Determination of T Cell Recognition and Cross-Reactivity to HIV via pMHC Lentiviral Display.”
Dr. Birnbaum’s research focuses on understanding and manipulating “natural” adaptive immune responses in the context of cancer and infection by using various strategies and techniques, including protein biochemistry, protein engineering, sequencing, and bioinformatics.