Prof. Chen Dong The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Chen Dong is a Professor at the Department of Immunology, the Olga and Harry Wiess Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Research, and the Director of the Center for Inflammation and Cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He did his graduate training at the University of Alabama... read moreat Birmingham and his postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He has been working on the mechanisms of T cell activation and function, with a focus on the cytokine and costimulatory molecule regulation of T cell lineage commitment and differentiation. His previous work led to the discovery of Th17 and Tfh cells as distinct lineage of helper T cell differentiation.