POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

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Work involves identifying novel classes of T cell-reactive antigens across different human cancers, to rationally design universal anti-cancer vaccines and more effective immunotherapies. Specifically, leverage optimized methods for Ribo-seq analyses and a novel bioinformatical pipeline to identify the effect of cells tress in the translatome of tumor and non-mutated cells. This work could exert a profound effect in the field by first, defining a novel class of tumor antigens, induced by tumor microenvironmental conditions, which could be shared by multiple cancers and is likely absent in healthy cells. Second, these studies could provide a rationale a new generation of vaccines to prevent carcinogenesis or tumor recurrence. Third, this work has the potential to provide a platform to quickly identify tumor-reactive TCRs that could target tumors of multiple origins in patients with common HLA alleles.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

PhD in biological Sciences required

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