Announcements
May 23rd, 2025
Excited to share our paper by "An engineered viral protein activates STAT5 to prevent T cell suppression" that was published today in Science Immunology!
May 20th, 2025
Congratulations to Monica Chanda, a student in the U-M Cancer Biology Training Program on the successful funding of NIH F31 Award!
May 2nd, 2025
Glad that I could take many of the trainees in my lab to attend another fantastic AAI meeting!
April 15th, 2025
Nina Castaneda, a PREP Scholar has accepted an offer to join the PIBS program at UM to pursue her PhD in Immunology. Congratuations!
March 11th, 2025
Claire Shudde (Pharmacology) and Monica Chanda (Cancer Biology) have been recognized with Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
July 21st, 2024
Congratulations to Christina Zheng for graduating with her PhD in Pharmacology!
April 20th, 2024
Xinyu Wang who graduated with her MS has accepted an offer to join the PIBS program at UM to pursue her PhD. Congratuations!
April 10th, 2023
Monica Chanda was awarded a Rogel Cancer Center TrEC Predoctoral Fellowship, and Claire Shudde a PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Drug Discovery. Congratulations to both!
March 28th, 2023
We welcome PIBS graduate student Grace Aleck who has recently joined the lab.
October 10th, 2022
Our grant "Regulating JAK-STAT signaling pathways to enhance T cell immunotherapy" was funded by a Concern Foundation Conquor Cancer Now Award!
August 15th, 2022
We are excited to receive a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) to investigate how signaling in T cells is regulated to enable antigen discrimination.
August 8th, 2022
Zehui Gu has completed her Pharmacology MS and will be joining us to pursue her PhD this Fall!
June 4th, 2022
Monica and Claire's paper has been published in the Journal of Immunological Methods! Their platform can be used to rapidly analyze activated T cells and their cytotoxic effects on co-cultured cancer cells by imaging cytometry [pubmed].
April 10th, 2022
Congratulations to Claire and Monica for completing their qualifying exams!
November 1st, 2021
Our grant "Modulating JAK-STAT signaling in cancer" was funded by a V Foundation Scholar Award!
August 18th, 2021
Congratulations to Monica on her successful application to the Cancer Biology Training Program (T32).
June 23rd, 2021
Christina was awarded a Pharmacology Charles W. Edmunds Fellowship. Congratulations!
May 28th, 2021
Congratulations to Claire on her successful application to the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (PSTP)!
April 1st, 2021
We are excited to welcome graduate students Monica Chanda (Cancer Biology) and Claire Shudde (Pharmacology) to the lab.
February 20th, 2021
Congratulations to Christina for passing her qualifying exam!
December 15th, 2020
Our grant "Development of novel T cell activators for cancer immunotherapy" was funded by the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation!
November 1st, 2020
We were awarded a Discovery Award from the U-M Rogel Cancer Center to investigate mechanisms of T cell suppression in tumors.
September 10th, 2020
Christina Zheng has joined the lab to pursue her PhD in Pharmacology.
