Team Hub 1

PhD student in the Piehl lab at Karolinska Institutet, and a University of Toronto Applied Immunology alumni. His research focuses on understanding the role of EBV in driving multiple sclerosis (MS) and the impact of various MS treatments on this immune dysregulation.

​

DPhil student in the Coles/Buckley group at the Kennedy Institute, Oxford. Her research is focused on elucidating the mechanism of CLIC5 ion transporter in immune and stromal cells in health and inflammation in the context of arthritis and inflammasome-mediated diseases.

PhD student in the Coles/Buckley lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on fibroblasts control the positioning and compartmentalisation of immune cells in the peripheral tissues.

PhD student in the Clarke lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on how cellular metabolism shapes immune responses in B cells.

Instructor in the Faith lab at Mount Sinai. He is a mucosal immunologist and microbiome scientist with a broad interest in the role of microbiota in health and disease and the application of microbiota-targeting therapeutics.

PhD student in the Brown Lab at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on engineering novel CAR-T for solid tumor therapy.

DPhil student in the lab of Prof. Persephone Borrow at the Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford. His research explores the diversity of CD8+ T cells in human secondary lymphoid tissues that modulate germinal centre responses in the development of humoral immunity.

Physician in anatomical pathology (pathologist). She obtained her PhD in 2021 and now works as a postdoc at the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. Her research focus on lymphoma and cancer-associated autoimmune diseases.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Dunn lab at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on Multiple Sclerosis (MS), specifically on the interaction between obesity and sex-differences on MS pathogenesis.

PhD student in A. Lundqvist group, at Karolinska Institutet. Her research focuses on enhancing cytotoxic T-cell infiltration and establishing T-cell-based immunotherapies for soft and bone sarcoma. 

PhD student working in Immuno-oncology at the department of Oncology-Pathology of Karolinska Institute, with a focus on resistance mechanisms of solid tumors to T-cell based immunotherapies.

Exchange student in Piehl's group at Karolinska Institutet studying B cells during multiple sclerosis, and a master student in Vita Pasukoniene's group at Vilnius University where he focuses on improving CAR-T cell production protocols.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, working on deciphering molecular mechanisms underlying initiation and/or progression of multiple sclerosis with focus on the role of Epstein Barr Virus in the disease pathogenesis.

He did his master’s studies in immunology at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research where he had the opportunity to work on stem cell research and, independently, explored the advantages of using immunoinformatics to design peptide vaccine models. Although, Jose is doing his PhD at Karolinska Institutet in another exciting area: extracellular vesicles and bone growth, his high motivation for immunology made him to immerse in the field again.

PhD student in the Udalova lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on deciphering the role of innate immune cells at the onset of colitis.

Graduate student in the Bhardwaj lab at Mount Sinai. His primary research interest is the use of precision medicine in translational research to enhance drug and vaccine development.

PhD student in the Powrie lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding the role of the microbiome in the development of intestinal inflammation. 

MD/PhD student in the Bhardwaj lab at Mount Sinai. She is interested in uncovering biomarkers and mechanisms of resistance to bladder cancer immunotherapies.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Jostins lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. His research is on both immunological and transcriptomic responses to cellular activation in T Cells focusing on chronic inflammatory diseases.

PhD student in the Samstein lab, part of the Precision Immunology Institute at Mount Sinai. She uses both computational and experimental approaches to study cancer risk and immune surveillance. 

PhD student in the Rowland-Jones/Peppa lab in the Viral Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on interplay between viruses and the immune system, with a particular interest in innate immune responses to chronic viral infections.

MD/PhD student in the Brody lab at Mount Sinai. He studies the function of T cell immunotherapy in clearing antigen-escape tumors and is interested in combining genomic engineering with immunotherapy.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Simon lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford. She is studying the age-related decline of autophagy in memory T and B cells to uncover novel drug targets that may increase vaccination efficiency in the ageing context.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Homann and Kamphorst labs at Mount Sinai. Her research interests focus on the induction, regulation and modulation of CD8 T cell responses in acute/chronic viral infections and autoimmune disease

PhD student in the Udalova lab at the University of Oxford. She studies synovial macrophages in the context of inflammatory arthritis.

PhD student in the Samstein lab. Her work integrates both computational and experimental approaches to study the role of tumor-intrinsic differences on the myeloid compartment and how this drives response to cancer immunotherapies.

PhD student in the McMichael lab in the Viral Immunology Unit, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on exploring the trafficking pathway of MHC-E and how MHC-E presents pathogen-derived peptides to CD8+ T cells.

Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Miriam Merad at Mount Sinai. He is interested in understanding myeloid regulation across tissue types and in response to distal tumor cues.

PhD student in the Schotsaert lab at Mount Sinai. She is interested in understanding the role of eosinophils and other granulocytes in the context of respiratory viral infections such as influenza.

MD/PhD student in the Merad lab at Mount Sinai. He is involved in the profiling of the immunological changes associated with tissue-specific remodeling during physiological aging and tumorigenesis using novel fate-mapping models and high throughput sequencing.

Bioinformatician in the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. His work focuses on T cell epitope prediction for cancer vaccines.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Bhardwaj lab at Mount Sinai. Her primary field of study is neoantigen-reactive CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment.

MD/PhD student in the Faith lab at Mount Sinai. She is interested in quantifying bacterial strain diversity in the human gut microbiome and investigating the colitogenicity of microbiome function over time.

PhD student in the Brody Lab at Mount Sinai. Her research focuses on defining signatures of cross- and directly-primed anti-tumor CD8+ T cells.

PhD student in the Faith lab at Mount Sinai. She uses computational and experimental approaches to identify colorectal cancer-promoting microbiotas and their mechanisms of action.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Bhardwaj lab at Mount Sinai. His primary field of study is the immune properties of microsatellite unstable cancers.

Postdoctoral fellow in the McMichael lab at the Viral Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her research aims to investigate the role of different cellular components in germinal centres during immune responses.

PhD student at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding how intestinal microbiota can drive inflammatory arthritis. 

Postdoctoral fellow in immunology specialised in infectious diseases and vaccines at the University of Oxford. Her research is focused on antibody responses induced by Ebola virus, Lassa virus and SARS-CoV-2 infections.

PhD student in Brian Brown's lab at Mount Sinai. She applies CRISPR genomics to understand the spatial architecture of the tumor microenvironment.

PhD student at the University of Oxford and training in clinical gastroenterology. His research focuses on inflammatory bowel disease and particularly how the lymphatic system may aid the resolution of intestinal inflammation.

PhD student in the Svensson lab at the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. Her research focus are macrophages in the dorsal root ganglia and their importance in chronic pain conditions.

PhD student in Lundberg lab at Karolinska Institutet and in the Tissue Homeostasis and Disease lab at KU Leuven. Her research focusses on the role of autoantibodies and antigen-specific B cells in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

PhD student in the Rowland-Jones lab at the Centre for Immuno-Oncology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the interplay between viruses and the immune system, especially regarding the antigenic processing pathway in viral infections.

Postdoctoral fellow at the Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology department at Karolinska Institutet. Her research focusses on the role of the actin cytoskeleton in the regulation of immune cell functions in the context of pathophysiologies due to inborn errors in actin regulators.  

PhD student in the Gillespie/McMichael lab at the Centre for Immuno-Oncology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on HLA-E peptide complexes in relation to HIV, TB, and cancer, and developing therapeutics based on this platform.

Research assistant at Centre for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Her primary research field is both in neurobiology and immunology.

PhD student in the Rowland-Jones lab in the Cancer Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the effect of chronic inflammation on musculoskeletal health in adolescents with HIV compared to those without HIV.

PhD student in the Gerard lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on cytokine crosstalk between tumour cells and immune cells within the tumour microenvironment.

PhD student in Alice Kamphorst's lab at Mount Sinai. He studies the differentiation of PD-1+ CD8 T cells into functional effector-like cells, including the helper role of CD4 T cells in the context of cancer and chronic infections.

MD/PhD student in the Faith lab at Mount Sinai. Usingcomputational and experimental techniques, she investigates themicrobiome's role in cancer and immune checkpoint blockade.

PhD student in the Garcia-Sastre lab at Mount Sinai. She is studying a novel oncolytic virus and is interested in targeted design of oncolytic virotherapy approaches to overcome resistance

Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurology at Yale University and is affiliated to the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. Her research explores the effect of sex hormones on T lymphocytes and sex bias in multiple sclerosis.

MD/PhD student in the lab of Miriam Merad at Mount Sinaideveloping transcriptomic approaches to comprehensively profilespatial niches in chronic inflammation.

PhD student  in the Samstein Lab at Mount Sinai. Her research focusses on understanding the influence of DNA Damage Repair genes on the immune landscape of tumors.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Simon Lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding the role of organelle segregation in T cell fate determination.

PhD student  in the Brundin lab at the Karolinska Institute. Her research focuses on deciphering the role of Hydrogen Peroxide as signaling molecule in adult neural stem cell differentiation.

Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. His research focuses on airway host defense in the context of infections and chronic inflammatory conditions such as asthma and COPD.

PhD student in the Gerard Lab at the Kennedy Institute, Oxford. Her research focuses on defining the dynamic relationship between IFN-g and CD8+ T cell dysfunction in cancer.

PhD student in the Bhardwaj Lab at Mount Sinai. She studies the interaction between epigenetic therapy-induced transposable element expression and immunotherapy in cancer.

Postdoctoral researcher in the Elliott lab at the Oxford Centre for Immuno-Oncology. His research focuses on the evaluation of T cells with different avidities against cancer cells, and their association with immune activation and exhaustion.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Dustin lab at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford. He uses state-of-the-art microscopy to study immune cell remodelling supporting immune cell-cell communication, ultimately driving immunotherapy and vaccine development.

Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Infectious Medicine at the Karolinska Institute. Her research focuses on understanding the host-pathogen interactions leading to the rapid development of necrotizing soft tissue infections.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Borrow/McMichael lab in the Viral Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning the immune-regulatory environment that modulates germinal centre responses.