Ho Ping-chih
Assistant Professor in Prerequisite Qualification
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Universite de Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Ping-Chih Ho got his B.S. in Botany and M.S. in Biochemical Science at National Taiwan University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He then decided to work as research technician in Department of Pharmacology at University of Minnesota. After one year working in Prof. Li-Na Wei’s lab as research technician, he joined Prof. Li-Na Wei’s lab as a Ph.D. student in 2008. During his Ph.D. study, he focused on transcriptional and non-transcription role of receptor-interacting protein 140 (RIP140) in adipocyte dysfunction and macrophage inflammatory regulation. In 2012, he joined Prof. Susan Kaech lab at Yale University to explore a new field of Kaech lab in cancer immunology.
Research Interest
The research focuses of Ho lab are to decipher how nutrients affect immune responses of an array of immune cells through the unexplored metabolic regulations and to investigate how metabolic reprogramming and targeting can be harnessed to fine-tunes immune responses in diseases, especially tumor immunity and autoimmune.
Publications
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Reenergizing T cell anti-tumor immunity by harnessing immunometabolic checkpoints and machineries. Ho P.C., Kaech S.M., (2017). 38-44.
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Metabolic Regulation of Tregs in Cancer: Opportunities for Immunotherapy. Wang H., Franco F., Ho P.C., (2017). 583-592.
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α-ketoglutarate orchestrates macrophage activation through metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming. Liu P.S., Wang H., Li X., Chao T., Teav T., et al., (2017). 985-994.
