Tony Yao

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Naresha Saligrama, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Western Ontario, 2019

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Mechanistic basis of immune-related toxicities caused by checkpoint inhibition

Enhanced anti-tumor responses elicited by checkpoint inhibitors are often accompanied by immune toxicities that evince a break in self-tolerance. We seek to delineate the pathways, both unilateral and mutual, that causally relate these phenomena.

Graduate publications