Bioengineering
Sean Yamada-Hunter
Assistant Professor
- California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Room 6538
- yamadahunter@ucla.edu
- (310) 825-9550
Faculty Information
Research and Interests
- Immunotherapy
- Protein engineering
- Cell engineering
- CAR T therapy
- Protein therapeutics
Notable Publications and Books
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/sean.yamada-hunter.1/bibliography/public/
Education
- B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
- Ph.D., Cancer Biology, Stanford University, 2020 (Mentor: Jennifer Cochran, Ph.D.)
- Postdoctoral Training, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, 2020 - 2025 (Mentor: Crystal Mackall, M.D.)
Awards and Recognition
- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Parker Scholar (2024 - 2025)
- STAT Wunderkind (2024) | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016 - 2020)
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2015 - 2019)