Seminar: Professor Nicholas Gascoigne
29 November 2022, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
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Organiser
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Hanh Gurr
Location
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Room 2017The Pears BuildingPond StreetLondonNW3 2PP
Please join us (face-to-face and virtually via Teams) as Professor Nicholas Gascoigne from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, is speaking on Tuesday, 29th of November. All are welcome.
Details
Title: 'Using distinict CAR and TCR signal transductioni molecules to enhance cellular immunotherapy'
Date: 29th November 2022
Speaker: Professor Nocholaas R.J. Gascoigne, Immunology Translatioinal Research Programme, Cancer Translational Research Programme, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore)
Host: Arne Akbar
Summary of the Speaker's work
Nicholas Gascoigne obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology from University College London, where his mentor was Prof. N.A. (Av) Mitchison. He then joined Mark Davis’ research team at Stanford University as a postdoc, contributing to early work on the genomic organization of the T cell receptor. His lab identified and characterized Themis, a protein that controls thymocyte positive selection through regulation of TCR signaling strength. His interests in T cell signaling, activation, and development, including signaling pathways in CAR-T cells and how they can be manipulated to improve CAR-T function in cancer immunotherapy.
Please use this link to join the seminar remotely. Do contact Hanh Gurr (h.gurr@ucl.ac.uk) if the link above does not work and you would like to join. We recommend to wear face masks during the seminar.