Rongzhen Yu

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Jilin University, 2023

Enrollment year: 2024

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