Dr. @Dom_Boardman1 and a team in Dr. Megan Levings' (Megan Levings) lab developed the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to target a microbial antigen! 🦠 They aim to develop an optimized #Treg #CellTherapy to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. bit.ly/3ZltOKy

Check out our GVHD protocol: "Modelling Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Mice Using Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells" Bio-protocol from Megan Levings lab. @dom_boardman1 Katie MacDonald Majid Mojibian

Congrats to Torin on a great study looking at T-cell responses in transplant recipients & how circulating variants impact these responses. Great privilege to work with Megan Levings, Sara Belga, MD MPH and others on this paper, now published in Transplantation: journals.lww.com/transplantjour…

Amazing oral presentation talks by our students Torin Halvorson and Elizabeth Gregory today at the CITAC #AJM2024

Congratulations to Torin Halvorson for his first place oral presentation at the CITAC CSCI-SCRC #AJM2024🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations to @BCCHResearch trainees, Torin Halvorson and Hebah Hussaina, on receiving a 2024 #VanierCanada Graduate Scholarship from CIHR and SSHRC for their respective projects. See the full list of recipients here: bcchr.info/4e37vjW

Huge congratulations to this year's Vanier scholars from the UBC MD/PhD program Torin Halvorson and Amy Wang!!🥳🎉 @UBCmedicine @UBCGradSchool CIHR

Huge congrats to Saif Dababneh and Torin Halvorson on winning a $40,000 BCCHR ResDev CD theme grant with their supervisors to conduct a novel collaborative project!

Reproducible detection of antigen-specific T cells and Tregs via standardized and automated activation-induced marker assay workflows biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_immuno

So excited that our work on infectious tolerance and CAR Tregs made the cover of ⁦Science Translational Medicine⁩ today. A project that’s been in the works by ⁦Christine Wardell⁩ for years.