Our laboratory is focused on dissecting the mechanisms of immune escape and tumor-immune crosstalk in pancreatic cancer and other malignancies, with the overarching goal of rapidly using these insights to guide therapeutic advances for cancer patients...
The Penaloza-MacMaster Laboratory
Viral pandemics remain an enduring threat to humanity. The Penaloza-MacMaster Laboratory focuses on developing novel strategies to prevent and treat viral infections by integrating fundamental immunology with translational...
The Tsokos laboratory studies immune cell signaling, metabolism and gene transcription in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases using state-of-the-art approaches. Our aim is to identify molecules that are central to the immunopathogenesis of the...
The Xavier Laboratory, spanning the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, focuses on systematic characterization of genetic variants to understand the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity...
This laboratory's area of research involves studies of autoimmunity in models of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, arthritis and diabetes in the NOD mouse. We are also investigating immune mechanisms in atherosclerosis, models of Alzheimer's...
Our interests focus on the adaptive immune response with respect to those multiple subunit plasma membrane receptors, namely T cell receptors (TCRs) and preTCRs, that recognize peptides bound to MHC molecules (pMHCs). abTCRs specifically bind to "foreign"...
My laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms of innate immunity and inflammation leading to tissue destruction. More specifically, we are investigating the attack mechanisms instrumental in targeted tissues for autoimmune destruction. Conversely, we...
The function of many proteins is regulated by post-translational modifications. One such modification is citrullination, which converts peptidylarginine to peptidylcitrulline. This process is catalyzed by the enzymes peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs)...
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...
Our goal is to understand the role of neural-immune interactions in pain, host defense, and immunity. It is increasingly clear that microbes and immune cells release mediators that impact the health and function of the nervous system. Neurons also release...
