Rui Mu

Program: Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Current advisor: Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Undergraduate university: Capital Medical University, 2022

Enrollment year: 2024

Research summary

Graduate publications
Chatterjee J, Qi X, Mu R, Li X, Eligator T, Ouyang M, Bozeman SL, Rodgers R, Aggarwal S, Campbell DE, Schriefer LA, Baldridge MT, Gutmann DH. 2025 Intestinal Bacteroides drives glioma progression by regulating CD8+ T cell tumor infiltration. Neuro Oncol, 27(6):1579-93. PMCID: PMC12309722

Mu R, Barakat R, Gutmann DH. 2025 Pan-cancer single cell transcriptomic clustering reveals heterogeneous CD8+ exhausted T cell populations with different immune checkpoint inhibitor responses. Oncoimmunology, 14(1):2540504. PMCID: PMC12320814

Anastasaki C, Mu R, Kernan CM, Li X, Barakat R, Koleske JP, Gao Y, Cobb OM, Lu X, Eberhart CG, Phillips JJ, Strahle JM, Dahiya S, Mennerick SJ, Rodriguez FJ, Gutmann DH. 2025 Aberrant coupling of glutamate and tyrosine kinase receptors enables neuronal control of brain-tumor growth. Neuron, 113(21):3582-3600.e7. PMCID: PMC12416319

Barakat R, Chatterjee J, Mu R, Qi X, Gu X, Smirnov I, Cobb O, Gao K, Barnes A, Kipnis J, Gutmann DH. 2024 Human single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a targetable CD8+ exhausted T cell population that maintains mouse low-grade glioma growth. Nat Commun, 15(1):10312. PMCID: PMC11605098