Torpedo Bio got its first funding! We were awarded an Academic Startup Grant by the South Carolina Research Authority! #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible

A huge thank you to Swim Across America for supporting our lab’s research on developing engineered immune cell therapies for cancer! Next swim in beautiful Kiawah on June 7. Register or donate now! Link below: swimacrossamerica.org/site/TR/OpenWa… #immunologymatters #makingwavestofightcancer

Exhilarating and sobering time at AAI 2025! Old and new colleagues, tremendous progress, great discussions. Going back to lab energized! #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

TOMORROW Wednesday June 3 is the second installment of SCBio Drive! Seven new startup companies from all around the world will get to pitch at the beautiful Charleston Place! scbio.org/scbiodrive/

Honored to throw the first pitch at the Charleston RiverDogs game! ⚾️ #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible #MUSCHealthCareHero

Great advice from Dr. Jeff Rathmell during his keynote at the Southeastern Immunology Symposium (SIS) UVA: Follow interesting questions Be bold Focus on what YOU can control Celebrate ALL wins Be grounded in YOUR values #immunologymatters #SIS2025

Truly exciting to speak at UT Southwestern Medical Center on repurposing regulatory T cells for cancer therapy! A big thank you to Dr. Rolf Brekken and Iosif Gershteyn for the opportunity and Dr. John Minna for hosting. #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible #CARTregs

Tremendous time at the Southeastern Immunology Symposium at the University of Virginia UVA in Charlottesville, VA! Phenomenal speakers and lively poster sessions at a beautiful campus and charming town. #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible #SIS2025

I’m on Wikipedia!!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pharm…

The Ferreira Lab turns 4 years old!!!! ferreiralab.com #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible

Happy 4th of July everyone! Entering the 250th year of the United States of America!

Deeply honored to have been invited to speak at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2025 scientific sessions in Chicago. A scalable cure for type 1 diabetes is in sight! #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible

Elated to speak, present three posters, and reconnect with colleagues at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) annual meeting in Boston!!! FOCIS #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible

RETINOIC ACID (RA) IS KEY TO REGENERATION!!! Mice can’t regenerate holes in their ears. Rabbits can. Overexpressing Aldh1a2, essential for RA synthesis and expressed after injury in rabbits but not in mice, or giving RA induced ear regeneration in mice! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Super proud of Burhan Rajnagarwala of the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics for completing his summer research internship and speaking on his work with Erin O’Connor in the lab. #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible #CARTregs

Thank you Maynard Nexsen for the opportunity to speak on Taking the Pulse - A Health Care and Life Sciences Podcast about Torpedo Bio's work on tackling cancer with cellular immunotherapy! #immunologymatters youtube.com/watch?v=R1jxDJ…

Congratulations to Meghan Schreck on a super productive summer and excellent final presentation on her work in the lab with Dr. Avik Chattopadhyay and Erin O’Connor as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)! #immunologymatters #changingwhatspossible

I AM AN AMERICAN! Beyond thrilled to become an integral part of this great experiment that is the United States of America!!! #zerothgenerationamerican

Happy 100th birthday to my PhD advisor Jack Leonard Strominger!!! 100 years of life. 74 years of running a lab. Words cannot describe how much of an inspiration you are to me and so many others. Carpe diem!

A new engineered regulatory T cell is born. Chimeric anti-HLA receptor regulatory T cells (CHAR Tregs) inhibit antibody production by B cells from HLA sensitized transplant patients, offering a precise approach to tackle antibody-mediated organ rejection. frontiersin.org/journals/immun…