Meet the Wucherpfennig Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Kai W. Wucherpfennig, MD

Chair, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neurology in the Field of Medical Oncology
Professor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Everybody calls me Kai because my last name can take years to learn (in case you wonder, my first name is Finnish, my last name German)! I came to Boston as a postdoctoral fellow, first at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then at Harvard College. I have stayed because Boston is such a great place to do science and have been a faculty member at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 1995. I study T cells because of their fascinating biology and their central role in many human diseases, including cancer and autoimmunity. I enjoy developing highly innovative approaches to important questions, working with advanced technologies and writing compelling publications. I also very much enjoy teaching graduate students in the Harvard Immunology Program.
 

Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Deng Pan, PhD - Principal Investigator, School of Medicine, Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lucas Ferrari de Andrade, PhD - Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Sushil Kumar, PhD​ - Scientist, 23andMe, Inc.
Adam Cartwright, PhD - Sr. Scientist II, Monte Rosa Therapeutics
Aya Kobayashi, PhD - Instructor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Don Shaffer, PhD - Head of Precision Cytokines & Cell Therapies, Sanofi
Wouter Pos, PhD - Head of Antibody Technology, VectorY, Amsterdam
Chenqi Xu, PhD - Professor, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Etienne Gagnon, PhD - Associate Research Professor, University of Montreal
Dhruv Sethi, PhD​ - Director, Obsidian Therapeutics
David Schubert, PhD - Sr. Principal Scientist at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
Susana Gordo, PhD - Sr. Director of Translational Science, Flagship Pioneering
Emilio Parisini, PhD - ERA Chair, Head of Biotechnology Group, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (Riga, Latvia)
Jianwen Feng, PhD - Sr. Director, Protein Science, Pyxis Oncology
Melissa Call, PhD - Associate Professor, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne
Nilufer Seth, PhD​ - Scientific Director, Janssen Pharmaceutical
Michael Hahn, PhD - Principal Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceutical
Mei-Huei Jang, PhD - Sr. Vice President of Technical Operations at Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals
Heiner Appel, MD - Private practice in internal medicine
Robert Moots, MD - Professor of Rheumatology, University of Liverpool
Nathan Mathewson, PhD - Human Immune Engineer for Immuno-Oncology, San Francisco
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD - Principal Investigator, Columbia University, New York
Shengbao Suo, PhD - Principal Investigator, Bioland Laboratory, China
Nathan Mathewson, PhD - Instructor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD - Principal Investigator, Columbia University, New York
Shengbao Suo, PhD - Principal Investigator, Bioland Laboratory, China
Archis Bagati, PhD - Instructor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Soumya Badrinath, PhD - Principal Scientist, Novartis
Yoshinaga Ito, MD, PhD - Full Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
Zexian Zeng, PhD - Assistant Professor, Peking University
​Adrienne Luoma, PhD - Sr. Scientist, BioNTech

Graduate Students

Matthew Call, PhD - Associate Professor, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
Katherine McLaughlin, PhD - Head of Global Strategy, Life Science, MilliporeSigma
Jessica Kohler, PhD   - Principal Scientist, Ensoma
Howell Moffett, PhD - Associate Director, Outpace Bio
Anne-Kathrin Anders, PhD - Computational biologist, Germany
Bettina Franz, PhD - Scientific Consultant

Undergraduate Students, Post-bac Trainees, Major Collaborators

Peng Jiang, PhD - Investigator, Cancer Data Science Laboratory, NIH 
James Maiarana, MD - Resident in Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
Olamide Olawoyin - Resident Doctor, Yale New Haven Hospital
Vladimir Wischnewski - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lausanne
Babak Moradi, MD - Professor, Christian-Albrechts University
Y. Joyce Liao, MD, PhD - Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Stanford University