Tenure-track investigator
Education:
Ph.D., 2018, University of California, San Francisco
B.A., 2010, Johns Hopkins University
Biography
Dr. Dang received his undergraduate degree in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2010, where he studied T cell differentiation in the lab of Dr. Drew Pardoll. After college, he spent a year in London working in Dr. Anne O’Garra’s lab at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill. After a brief stint in medical school, he performed his graduate thesis work at the University of California, San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Cyster. There he studied the role of oxysterols and cholesterol metabolism in regulating macrophage inflammatory responses. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2018, Dr. Dang joined the laboratory of Dr. Hiten Madhani at UCSF for his postdoctoral work. There he used forward genetic approaches to study mechanisms of immune system manipulation by the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Dr. Dang was hired as a tenure-track investigator in the NIAID Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome in 2022. His group focuses on understanding the crosstalk between fungal pathogens/commensals and mammalian hosts.