Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and the Bakar Aging Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Project Title: Deciphering the Immunogenicity of Cell Death Using Systematic Genetic Tools
Award Year: 2024
Biography
Dr. Roarke Kamber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and the Bakar Aging Research Institute at UCSF. He received his B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University, where he studied mechanisms of selective autophagy in Dr. Vladimir Denic’s laboratory. Following this, he completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University in Dr. Michael Bassik’s laboratory, where he developed inter-cellular CRISPR screening tools to investigate macrophage-mediated cell clearance. His lab at UCSF focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that enable macrophages to orchestrate tissue responses to a range of unwanted cell types, including cancer cells, senescent cells, and dead cells.