Research Team
La Cime
Postdoc. Fellow
Francesca Alfei, Ph.D.
Research interest: T cell exhaustion and the tumor microenvironment
Giusy Di Conza, Ph.D.
Research interest: macrophage and tumor immunology
Limei Wang, Ph.D.
Research interest: Immunometabolic regulations in dendritic cells and memory T cells
Sofie Hedlund Moller, Ph.D.
Research interest: Microbiota-mediated metabolic regulation in myeloid cells
Yi-Ru Yu, Ph.D.
Research interest: T cell exhaustion and mitochondrial biology in T cells
Pei-Chun Hseuh, Ph.D.
Research interest:
T cell metabolism in ageing
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Ph.D. Student
Alessio Bevilacqua, MS
Research interest: Metabolic reprogramming in memory and exhausted T cells
Fabien Franco, MS
Research interest: Mitochondrial dynamics in T cell differentiation
Alison Jaccard, MS
Research interest: Metabolic intervention for T cell-based immunotherapy
Xiaoyun Li, MS
Research interest: Macrophages and cancer-associated fibroblast
Anna Kohl, MS
Research interest: Mitochondrial guidance in T cell exhaustion
Research interest: Metabolic adaptation and targeting in regulatory T cells
Research interest: Metabolic checkpoint in dendritic cell behaviour
Kung-Chi Kao, MS
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Yu-Ming Chuang, MS
Research interest: Metabolic regulation in metastasis and T cell exhaustion
Zhiyu Li, MD​
Lab Manager and Research Assistant
Yao-Chen Tsui, MS
Lab Manager
Amrita Manchala, MS
Research Assistant
Stefania Vilbois, MS
Research Assistant
Master Student and Intern
Lorene Rousseau
MD/Master student
Research interest: To be determined
Pia Neubert
Master student
Research interest: Metabolic crosstalk between tumor and tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes
Alumni
Pu-Ste Liu, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2015-2017 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Principal Investigator, NHRI, Taiwan
Wan-Chen Cheng, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2015-2018 (Ph.D.)
Current Position: pending
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Chun-Pu Lin, MS
Training Period: 2016-2017 (Intern)
Current Position:
Ph.D. student, NKI, Netherland
Haiping Wang, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2016-2020 (Ph.D.)
Current Position:
Postdoc., University of Geneva, Switzerland
Chin-Hsien Tsai, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2018-2020 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, NDU, Taiwan
Sheue-Fen Tzeng, Ph.D.
Period: 2018-2020
(Research technician)
Current Position: Staff scientist, NDU, Taiwan
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Period: 2019-2020
(Master Student)
Current Position: PhD student, University of Bern, Switzerland
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