News & Events: Immune Response

Immunologist Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., professor and director of the Department of Surgery's Transplantation Research Lab and Tang Lab, is one of the featured speakers at the first annual UCSF Immuno"XX": Women in Immunology Symposium on October 22, 2018 and will lead the session on Tolerance and Immunity.   Immuno"XX" is focused on two goals: 1) providing a platform to highlight female scientists from UCSF, and 2) building a community of female immunologists to facilitate collaborations and provide career building opportunities. Synapse, the UCSF student newspaper, recently published an article [...]

UCSF News reports on the work of  Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., and other UC San Francisco researchers to develop new organ transplant strategies that better prevent rejection of donated organs. The research of Dr. Tang, Associate Professor in the Division of Transplant Surgery, and Director of the Transplantation Research Lab and Tang Lab, and colleagues, is reported on in two recently published journal articles. "Organ-transplant recipients often reject donated organs, but a new, two-pronged strategy developed by UC San Francisco researchers to specifically weaken immune responses that target [...]