David Turicek

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023

Enrollment year: 2023

Research summary

Graduate publications
Srivastava N, Vomund AN, Yu R, Peterson OJ, Yang Y, Turicek DP, Abousaway O, Li T, Kain L, Stone P, Ansar A, Clement CC, Sharma S, Melhem R, Zhang B, Liu C, Joglekar AV, Hu H, Hsieh CS, Campisi L, Santambrogio L, Teyton L, Unanue ER, Arbelaez AM, Lichti CF, Wan X. 2026 A microenvironment-driven HLA-II-associated insulin neoantigen elicits persistent memory T cell activation in diabetes. Nat Immunol, 27(1):82-97. PMCID: PMC12764431

Turicek DP, Wan X. 2025 Decoding autoimmunity: HLA-DQβ and type 1 diabetes. J Immunol, 214(5):859-61. PMCID:

Turicek DP, Wan X. 2024 The epigenetic trajectory of type 1 regulatory T cells. Elife, 13():e104239. PMCID: PMC11563572