Principal Investigator

Kai W. Wucherpfennig, MD PhD
Chair, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
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.
Chair, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
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
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Deng Pan, PhD Lucas Ferrari de Andrade, PhD Sushil Kumar, PhD Adam Cartwright, PhD Aya Kobayashi, PhD Don Shaffer, PhD Wouter Pos, PhD Chenqi Xu, PhD Etienne Gagnon, PhD Dhruv Sethi, PhD David Schubert, PhD Susana Gordo, PhD Emilio Parisini, PhD Jianwen Feng, PhD Melissa Call, PhD Nilufer Seth, PhD Michael Hahn, PhD Mei-Huei Jang, PhD Heiner Appel, MD Robert Moots, MD Graduate Students Matthew Call, PhD Katherine McLaughlin, PhD Jessica Kohler, PhD Howell Moffett, PhD Anne-Kathrin Anders, PhD Bettina Franz, PhD Undergraduate Students, Post-bac Trainees, Major Collaborators Peng Jiang, PhD James Maiarana, MD Olamide Olawoyin Vladimir Wischnewski Babak Moradi, MD Y. Joyce Liao, MD, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Cancer Immunotherapy Biotech, San Francisco Scientist, Evelo Biosciences Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Head of Precision Cytokines & Cell Therapies, Sanofi Head of Antibody Technology, VectorY, Amsterdam Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Principal Investigator, Cancer Immunobiology, University of Montreal Principal Scientist, Obsidian Therapeutics Principal Scientist, Hoffmann – La Roche Director of Translational Medicine, LogicBio Therapeutics ERA Chair, Head of Biotechnology Group, Latvian Institute Sr. Director, Protein Science, Pyxis Oncology Group leader, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne Scientific Director, Janssen Pharmaceutical Principal Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceutical Vice President of CMC, Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals Priv. Doz., Charite Berlin Professor of Rheumatology, University of Liverpool Associate Professor, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Head of Global Strategy, Life Science, MilliporeSigma Senior Scientist II, BioNTech SE Senior Scientist, Outpace Bio Computational biologist, Germany Associate Director, Discovery Biology, Sumitomo Oncology Investigator, Cancer Data Science Laboratory, NIH Resident in Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University MD student, Yale University PhD student, University of Lausanne Medical Director, Center for Orthopedics, University of Heidelberg Associate Professor, Stanford University |