Peter Westcott joins 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) as an assistant professor and Cancer Center member on Sept. 6, 2022. Westcott鈥檚 research explores how the immune system shapes tumor evolution. His lab combines cancer genomics and immunology to understand how the immune system fails to react as cancer develops. He hopes this understanding may lead to new immunotherapies for a wide range of cancer patients.
Westcott says it is a dream come true to join CSHL. 鈥淚t is incredibly humbling to join the faculty at CSHL, with its illustrious and storied history, and I cannot imagine a better environment for nurturing creative science,鈥� he says. 鈥淭he level of cross-disciplinary pollination is amazing, and I see many opportunities for deeply meaningful collaboration.鈥�
Previously, Westcott was a postdoctoral fellow at the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. He completed his doctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco.
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