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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.