Darya Khantakova

Program: Cancer Biology

Current advisor: Marco Colonna, MD

Undergraduate university: Novosibirsk State University, 2019

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Innate immune cells in the tumor microenvironment

Graduate publications
Di Luccia B, Molgora M, Khantakova D, Jaeger N, Chang HW, Czepielewski RS, Helmink BA, Onufer EJ, Fachi JL, Bhattarai B, Trsan T, Rodrigues PF, Hou J, Bando JK, da Silva CS, Cella M, Gilfillan S, Schreiber RD, Gordon JI, Colonna M.. 2024 TREM2 deficiency reprograms intestinal macrophages and microbiota to enhance anti-PD-1 tumor immunotherapy. Sci Immunol, 9(95):eadi5374. PMCID:

Rodrigues PF, Trsan T, Cvijetic G, Khantakova D, Panda SK, Liu Z, Ginhoux F, Cella M, Colonna M. 2024 Progenitors of distinct lineages shape the diversity of mature type 2 conventional dendritic cells. Immunity, 57(7):1567-1585.e5. PMCID:

Khantakova D, Brioschi S, Molgora M. 2022 Exploring the Impact of TREM2 in Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Vaccines (Basel), 10(6):943