Our Team of Scientists

Andy J. Minn, M.D., Ph.D. (Director)

Professor, Radiation Oncology

Director, Mark Foundation Center for Immunotherapy, Immune Signaling, and Radiation

Interferon and pattern recognition receptor signaling in cancer, immunotherapy resistance

E. John Wherry, Ph.D.

Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor

Chair, Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics

Director, Institute for Immunology

T cell exhaustion, immunotherapy, mucosal immunity

Carl June, M.D.

Richard W. Vague Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies

Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

CAR T cells, lymphocyte biology

Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.

J. Samuel Staub, M.D. Professor, Cancer Biology

Director, Penn Center for Genome Integrity

DNA repair, DNA damage response and inflammatory signaling

Jorge Henao-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Chronic inflammation, mouse genetics, non-coding RNAs

Sara Cherry, Ph.D.

Professor, Microbiology

Director, Program for Chemogenomic Discovery, Center for Precision Medicine

Host-virus interaction, genetic and functional screens, pattern recognition receptors

Igor Brodsky, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pathobiology

Host-pathogen interactions, pattern recognition receptor and cell death signaling

Junwei Shi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology

CRISPR screening and genetics, epigenetics

Nancy Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor, Statistics

Vice Dean, Wharton Doctoral Programs

Genomics and single-cell analysis, variant detection, false discovery rate control

Lei Dong, Ph.D.

Professor, Radiation Oncology

Vice Chair and Director, Medical Physics

Medical physics, proton and FLASH radiation

Costas Koumenis, Ph.D.

Richard H. Chamberlain Professor, Radiation Oncology

Vice Chair, Radiation Research

Radiation biology, tumor microenvironment