Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Title: A Modular Cell Therapy Platform for Controlling Immunological Tolerance
Award Year: 2023
Biography
Dr. Nathan Reticker-Flynn is a tumor immunologist and Biomedical Engineer working at the interfaces of cancer metastasis, tumor evolution, adaptive immunity, and immunotherapy. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while working in the lab of Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia and performed his postdoctoral studies with Dr. Edgar Engleman at Stanford University. His discoveries include the revelation that effective immunotherapies require systemic activation of anti-tumor immunity and that lymph node metastases serve to reeducate adaptive immune responses in a manner that promotes distant metastasis. Dr. Reticker-Flynn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. His lab investigates mechanisms of immune tolerance and regulatory T cells in cancer and autoimmune diseases and develops new immunotherapies that target tolerance programs within lymph nodes.