Jarrod Dudakov
Dr. Dudakov is an Assistant Member in the Program in Immunology as part of the Clinical Research Division and the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Washington. Dr. Dudakov graduated with a PhD in Immunology and Stem Cell Biology from Monash University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Immunology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 2016 Dr. Dudakov moved to Seattle to establish his lab in at the Fred Huth. The Dudakov lab is working to understand the mechanisms underlying natural thymic regeneration so that new therapies can be developed to enhance T cell immunity. Such interventions would be extremely valuable for patients who undergo thymus-damaging radiation and/or chemotherapy, including the generally aggressive “conditioning” required before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Targeted thymic regeneration could also significantly benefit individuals with T cell deficiencies due to aging, genetic causes (such as severe combined immunodeficiency), chronic infectious disease (such as HIV), or radiation injury (such as from nuclear accident).
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