Investigators

Summary

Dr. Lohmueller’s laboratory focuses on engineering synthetic receptors and gene circuits to improve adoptive cell therapies to treat cancer. Two major goals of the lab include enhancing receptor targeting specificity as well as remediating suppression of the anti-tumor immune response. One area of technology development is engineering universal chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) capable of multi-antigen targeting and tunable receptor activity. These receptors potentially allow for treating a variety of cancers, while avoiding cancer relapse, and alleviating therapy-related toxicities.