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September 2024  Riley Curran was awarded the Frank Fitch Award from the BSD.

July 2024  Taylor Graham was awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from NIH.

June 2024  Matt Walker was awarded the Robert E. Priest Fellowship from the Department of Pathology.

April 2024  Pete Savage was appointed Chair of the Committee on Immunology.

July 2023  Congratulations to Dave Klawon for successfully defending his doctoral thesis.

June 2023  The Savage Lab welcomes Taylor Graham, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

May 2023  The Savage Lab welcomes Nina Amarandos, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

February 2023  Publication: Victoria Lee and Donald Rodriguez et al. “The endogenous repertoire harbors self-reactive CD4+ T cell clones that adopt a follicular helper T cell-like phenotype at steady state”, Nature Immunology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01425-0

August 2022  Congratulations to Donald Rodriguez for successfully defending his doctoral thesis.

September 2021  The Savage Lab welcomes Nikita Maheshwari, doctoral candidate and MSTP in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

September 2021  Publication: Chao et al. “Effector T cell responses unleashed by regulatory T cell ablation exacerbate oral squamous cell carcinoma”, Cell Reports Medicine (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100399

September 2021  The Savage Lab welcomes Nicole Ganci, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

June 2021  Dave Klawon was awarded the Robert E. Priest Fellowship from the Department of Pathology.

April 2021  Publication: Klawon, Gilmore, et al. “Altered selection on a single self-ligand promotes susceptibility to organ-specific T cell infiltration”, Journal of Experimental Medicine (2021). https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200701

April 2021  Congratulations to Jaime Chao for successfully defending her doctoral thesis.

July 2020  The Savage Lab welcomes Riley Curran, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

July 2020  The Savage Lab welcomes Matthew Walker, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

April 2020  Publication: Miller et al., “Eomes identifies thymic precursors of self-specific memory-phenotype CD8+ T cells”, Nature Immunology (2020).    https://rdcu.be/b3xKt

January 2020  Publication: Savage et al., “Regulatory T cell development”, Annual Review of Immunology (2020).

December 2019  Donald Rodriguez was awarded an NIH F30 MD/PhD fellowship.

May 2019  Jaime Chao was awarded the Robert E. Priest Fellowship from the Department of Pathology.

January 2018  Publication: Chao and Savage, “Unlocking the complexities of tumor-associated regulatory T cells”, Journal of Immunology (2018).

September 2017  The Savage Lab welcomes Donald Rodriguez, doctoral candidate and MSTP in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

July 2017  Publication: Leonard-Gilmore et al., “Identification of natural regulatory T cell epitopes reveals convergence on a dominant autoantigen”, Immunity (2017).

March 2017  The Savage Lab welcomes Dave Klawon, doctoral candidate in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

March 2017  Victoria Lee was awarded an NIH F30 predoctoral MD/PhD fellowship.

September 2016  The Savage lab welcomes Christine Miller, doctoral candidate and MSTP in the Committee on Immunology, to the lab.

April 2016  Publication: Malchow et al., “Aire enforces immune tolerance by directing autoreactive T cells into the regulatory T cell lineage”, Immunity (2016).

March 2016  Publication: Leventhal et al., “Dendritic cells coordinate the development and homeostasis of organ-specific regulatory T cells”, Immunity (2016).

January 2016  John Leonard is awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship.