Christy Paik

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Todd A. Fehniger, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Vanderbilt University, 2021

Enrollment year: 2023

Research summary

Graduate publications
Wong P, Paik Y, Chang L, Burdi A, Neal C, Cubitt CC, Tran J, Bhattarai B, Morina L, Marin ND, Hwang K, Sohn H, Wagner JA, Foltz JA, Song WM, Schappe T, Marsala L, Foster M, Foster J, Berrien-Elliott MM, Piersma SJ, Colonna M, Yokoyama WM, Cooper MA, Fehniger TA. 2026 Inducible T-bet deletion reveals tissue-specific requirements in NKp46+ ILC immunobiology and response to murine cytomegalovirus. Nat Commun, 17(1):7708. PMCID: PMC13434699

Zhou AY, Marin ND, Afrin S, Wong P, Tran J, Jacobs MT, Becker-Hapak M, Marsala L, Foster M, Foltz JA, Neal CC, Russler-Germain DA, Morina L, Paik Y, Cubitt CC, Schappe T, Pence P, McClain E, Kelley S, Fortier J, Fiala M, Slade M, Schroeder M, Stockerl-Goldstein K, Vij R, Gao F, Berrien-Elliott MM, Fehniger TA. 2025 Memory-like NK cell differentiation, inhibitory NKG2A blockade, and improved recognition via antibody or CAR engineering combine to enhance NK cell attack against multiple myeloma. J Immunol, 214(1):1-11. PMCID: PMC11844139