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Dr. Nicholas Wu Takes on Lifelong Quest to Understand How the Immune System Responds to the Flu
Dr. Nicholas Wu’s research (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has the potential to shift the paradigm of antibody discovery and characterization. Dr. Wu attempts to interpret the complexity of the human antibody repertoire, by establishing a sequence-based approach for epitope prediction.
Dr. Michael Birnbaum, 2020 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
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. Avinash Das Sahu, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Avinash Das Sahu, Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, describes his research project titled “Identification of cancer drugs that boost immunotherapy response.”
Dr. Murad Mamedov, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Murad Mamedov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, describes his research project titled “Mapping γδ T Cell Receptor Ligands.”
Dr. Kamal Mandal, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Kamal Mandal, University of California, San Francisco, describes his research project titled “‘Structural surfaceomics: an approach to identify cancer-specific cell surface protein conformations for immunotherapeutic targeting.”
Dr. Ansuman Satpathy, 2018 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Ansuman Satpathy, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, was awarded a 2018 Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research for his work focused on combining disciplines of genomics and human immunology.
Dr. Laura Mackay, 2018 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Laura MacKay, Laboratory Head and Senior Lecturer, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, is studying a recently described subset of immune cells called tissue-resident memory T cells, which combat various viral infections and cancer.
Dr. Patricia Therese Illing, 2018 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Patricia Therese Illing of Monash University was awarded a 2018 Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research for her work involving an innovative new approach for identifying influenza-specific peptide antigens.
