A major area of our interest is how eukaryotic cells sense and respond to stress in the form of damage to their genetic material. When cells incur DNA damage, they induce the transcription of genes involved in cell cycle arrest and repair of the damage...
The Pishesha Lab studies the biological complexities of antigen processing and presentation. We explore how these processes can be manipulated to modulate immunity. To that end we use engineered nanobodies and -for some applications- engineered red blood...
Dr. Gaurav D. Gaiha, MD, DPhil, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Gaiha’s lab focuses on understanding the T cell...
Symbiotic microbiota residing on the body surface (gut lumen, skin and other areas) easily outnumbers our own cells and dwarfs our genome by hundred folds with their metagenome. Large-scale research projects such as Human Microbiome Project have...
My research focuses on understanding the balance between protective antitumor immunity and immunotherapy toxicities. In preclinical mouse models my lab develops novel immunotherapies designed to reduce systemic toxicities. This has involved a variety of...
Lipid signaling in immunity and inflammatory disease
My laboratory studies the biology of the bioactive lipid mediator- sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), a fundamental regulator of immune and vascular systems. The vertebrate immune system co-evolved with...
Research Interests
Our lab’s major focus is on the mechanisms by which both immune and non-hematopoietic (tissue resident) cells maintain immune quiescence in both alloimmunity and autoimmunity. Our work has been instrumental in determining the cytokine...
