Yosuke Kumamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Principal Investigator
Center for Immunity and Inflammation
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
Mononuclear phagocytes, Dendritic cells, T cells, Adaptive immunity, Inflammation, Metabolism, Vaccine, Allergy, Autoimmunity
Education:
BS: University of Tokyo (2002)
PhD: University of Tokyo (2007)
Photo credit: Patrick Wong
Naoya Tatsumi, Ph.D.
Visiting Researcher/Postdoc
Research Interests:
Naoya received his PhD in molecular biology from Osaka University, Japan. He did a postdoc and then became an Assistant Professor in Osaka University, where he studied the regulation mechanisms of WT1 tumor antigen and its role in cancer development and progression. After spending a few years in UCSD and U of Washington, he joined the Lab in 2018. His current project is to understand the mechanism of T cell priming by dendritic cells.