Leo Lei, DDS, PhD
@LeoLeiDDSPhD
Associate Professor @MDAndersonNews; Immunologist-Oral Oncologist; #InnateImmunity, #HeadNeckCancer, PI @IOTNmoonshot, Husband, Father of 2
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2YxS4ksAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 24-12-2019 20:06:30
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We were all students UNC Lineberger>15 years ago. We are immigrants who benefited from the inclusive academic environment in the US. We developed programs to tackle oral cancer, brain tumors, and PDAC, with shared passion, gratitude, and friendship. Jian Hu Gaoyang Liang
Come and check out our poster #SITC23 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer jitc.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…. We will present key data from our STING activating nanoparticles.Youngseok Cho
STING is a bona fide proton channel. An incredible landmark study! Congratulations to Nir Hacohen, Bingxu Liu, Darrell Irvine and all authors. science.org/doi/full/10.11…
The @umich has launched a well-resourced ambitious campus-wide Single-Cell Spatial Analysis Program. We are recruiting tenure-stream faculty for various schools and departments. UM Biointerfaces Michigan Public Health University of MichiganPharmacy University of MichiganDentistry Michigan Medicine apply.interfolio.com/127941
In addition to HPV and oncogenes, metabolic conditions can also remodel the STING-type-I interferon response. Led by our PhD student UMich Imm Grad Prog U-M Rogel Cancer Center Blake Heath, we found that saturated fatty acids inhibit STING. Supported by IOTN Moonshot cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Thanks to the government-private partnership in vaccine development, we are able to have a lab holiday dinner again after 3 years! Inspiring talk University of Michigan by Dr. Melissa Moore on Moderna effort on mRNA meds! Best holiday wishes to our colleagues, mentors, trainees, and friends!
Our IOTN Moonshot group U-M Rogel Cancer Center UMich Imm Grad Prog joined a team, led by the amazing Kat Barnett and Ting Lab, to co-define a 'death spiral', triggered by the epithelial-myeloid cell interactions in severe/lethal COVID-19 infections Cell Host & Microbe -Teamwork is vital!
Congratulations to our talented DDS/PhD dual degree candidate Hülya Taner UM SchoolofDentistry, who won the Best Basic and Translational Award from the 27th Hinman Research Symposium, held at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center