Sean Yamada-Hunter

Sean Yamada-Hunter

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BIOENGINEERING

California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Room 6538

Email: yamadahunter@ucla.edu

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)