Lili Yang
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
University of California los Angeles
United States of America
Biography
The immune system comprises a small, powerful network of blood cells that survey, detect and destroy almost all harmful invasions by germs or viruses but it often is unable to fight against deadly diseases such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. Lili Yang, PhD, seeks to understand how the immune system responds to attack by disease. Through her research, Dr. Yang hopes to develop effective therapies that will engineer the immune system of patients suffering from cancer and AIDS by manipulating their own blood cells to fight their diseases.
Research Interest
Tumor Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy
Publications
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Chodon, T.; Comin-Anduix, B.; Chmielowski, B.; Koya, R. C.; Wu, Z.; Auerbach, M.; Ng, C.; Avramis, E.; Seja, E.; Villanueva, A.; McCannel, T. A.; Ishiyama, A.; Czernin, J.; Radu, C. G.; Wang, X.; Gjertson, D. W.; Cochran, A. J.; Cornetta, K.; Wong, D. J.; Kaplan-Lefko, P.; Hamid, O.; Samlowski, W.; Cohen, P. A.; Daniels, G. A.; Mukherji, B.; Yang, L.; Zack, J. A.; Kohn, D. B.; Heath, J. R.; Glaspy, J. A.; Witte, O. N.; Baltimore, D.; Economou, J. S.; Ribas, A. Adoptive transfer of MART-1 T-cell receptor transgenic lymphocytes and dendritic cell vaccination in patients with metastatic melanoma Clin Cancer Res, 2014; 20(9): 2457-65.
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Yang, L.; Wang, P. Passive immunization against HIV/AIDS by antibody gene transfer Viruses, 2014; 6(2): 428-47.
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Smith, D. J.; Liu, S.; Ji, S.; Li, B.; McLaughlin, J.; Cheng, D.; Witte, O. N.; Yang, L. Genetic engineering of hematopoietic stem cells to generate invariant natural killer T cells Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015; 112(5): 1523-8.
