Omar Abousaway

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Chyi-Song Hsieh, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Houston, 2019

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Targeting lymphocytes involved in autoimmunity using CAR T cells.

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