Jennifer Wu
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Biography
Jennifer Wu has received her PhD from the University of British Columbia and Post doctorate training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She has joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Washington and tenured as an Associate Professor. In 2011, she has accepted the faculty appointment at the Medical University of South Carolina and became a Member of Hollings Cancer Center Cancer Immunology Program. Her research focuses on understanding how cancer cells disable the immune system with the ultimate goal to develop effective immunotherapy of cancer. Her work was the first to shown that tumors shed NKG2D ligand sMIC to perturb the maintenance of tumor-killing NK cells and to facilitate tumor metastasis. Her research team is the first to demonstrate that antibody targeting sMIC refuels and revamps endogenous innate and adoptive anti-tumor responses. Her findings were extensively published in Nature, Journal of Clinical investigations, Clinical Cancer Research, Oncoimmunology. She has served as the elected Committee Chair of Cancer in the Federation of Clinical Immunology Society and Editorial Board of many cancer immunology related Journals.