DeNardo Lab Personnel

Current Members

David DeNardo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine

David G. DeNardo, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Pathology/Immunology

 

 

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Brett Knolhoff

Research Lab Supervisor

 

Keeping David and others in line!

Xiuting Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Therapeutic targeting of PDAC to improve response to immunotherapy

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Brett Herzog, M.D. Ph.D.

Instructor of Medicine - Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Reprogramming tumor microenvironment in lung cancer

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Chong Zuo

Graduate Student (G6), Molecular Cell Biology

 

Macrophage proliferation control and pancreatic cancer

 

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John Baer

Graduate Student (G5), Molecular Cell Biology 

 

Understanding origin-specific contributions of macrophages to tumorigenesis

 

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Varintra Krisnawan

Graduate Student (G4), Immunology MSTP Program

 

Role of fibrosis in response to radiation therapy.

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Marcus Breden

Research Associate

 

Clinical sample processing and banking.

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Jad Belle

Graduate Student (G3), MGG MSTP Program

Role of fibroblast subsets in pancreas cancer progression.

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Graham Hogg

Graduate Student (G3), Immunology MSTP Program

Tumor associated dendritic cells

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Graduate Student (G1), Immunology MSTP Program

Tumor Immunology

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Angela Alarcon

Research Assistant

Macrophage Biology

 

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Savannah Bogner

Research Assistant

Pre-clinical Animal Modeling

Liang-I Kang , M.D. Ph.D.

Physician Scientist Training Program - Postdoctoral Fellow

Role of liver microenvironment in metastatic cancer

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James Bond RXm

Resident immunostaining agent

 

Alumni

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Samarth Hegde

Graduate Student, Molecular Cell Biology

Dysfunctional CD8 T cell immune surveillance in early pancreatic cancer

Current position: Postdoctoral scholar, Mt. Sinai

 

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Roheena Panni, M.D.

Surgical Oncology Research Fellow 

Reprogramming tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

Current position: Surgical fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering

 

John Herndon B.S.

Staff Scientist

Scientific collaborations within university and outside, using reagents and techniques for targeted immunotherapy

 Current position: Department of Surgery, Washington University

 

Yu Zhu DeNardo Lab

Yu Zhu, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Molecular Cell Biology (2017)

Ontogeny of macrophages in pancreatic cancer

Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University

 

Melissa Meyer DeNardo Lab

Melissa Meyer, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Molecular Cell Biology

 Tumor-induced changes in dendritic cell differentiation  

Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar, La Jolla Institute for allergy and immunology

 

Hong Jiang

Hong Jiang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Current Position: Assistant Professor Sichuan University

 

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 John Mitchem, MD

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Surgery and Immunology   University of Missouri

 

Alston James, MD

Surgical Oncology Research Fellow 

Dendritic cell reprograming.

Current position: Surgical fellow, Washington University

Katherine Alexander

Current Position: Medical Student

 

Kyung Bae Lee (Kevin)

Current Position: Medical Student