Prof. Yong-Jun Liu University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Yong-Jun Liu is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Immunology, Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair in Immunology, and Director of the Center for Cancer Immunology Research, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His laboratory isolated the pDCs and demonstrated their function as type 1 IFN-producing cells... read moreand precursors of a unique subset of dendritic cells. His current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which pDCs sense viral infection and regulate innate and adaptive immune responses.