The Center for Immunology would like to welcome Dr. Tanya Freedman, Department of Pharmacology  and Dr. Ingunn Stromnes, Department of Microbiology and Immunology to our group in WMBB.

Dr. Freedman came to the University after doing a post doctoral training with Dr. Arthur Weiss at UCSF.  Her lab at the University of Minnesota will build on her biochemistry and cell signaling background to continue the investigation of translational applications in tumor-associated and inflammatory macrophages.  Dr. Stromnes comes from the Greenberg lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.  Her laboratory will focus on developing and testing novel strategies to engineer T lymphocytes to safely eliminate recalcitrant cancers.  We would also like to congratulate Dr. Stromnes for winning the 2017 Skip Viragh Career Development Award for her work on "Enhancing Efficacy of Engineered T-cell Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer".