Current Immunology Grant Trainees
2019-2020 T32 Training Grant Recipients
Bolivar Wagers
boliv004@umn.edu
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD./PhD), 2016
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2018
Mentor: Bruce Blazar
Research Interest: Transplant immunology; regulatory T cell immunotherapy for the treatment or prevention of acute Graft Versus Host Disease.
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student, 2016
Mentor: Branden Moriarty
Research Interest: Basic biology of NK cells and implications for their use in immunotherapy
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD./PhD), 2015
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2017
Mentor: Bruce Blazar
Research Interest: Transplantation immunobiology, with a specific focus on interventions to prevent and treat chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
sjaas004@umn.edu
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2016
Mentor: Thomas Griffith
Research Interest:Understanding the mechanisms responsible for sepsis-induced immune suppression
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2017
Mentor: Mike Farrar
Research Interest: Development and function of regulatory T-cells
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD./PhD), 2017
Microbiology & Immunology Graduate Student 2018
Mentor: Dan Mueller
Research Interest: Self-specific B cell evolution in autoimmunity