Wesley Tung, B.S.

Predoctoral IRTA Fellow

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Education:

B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2019, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

Biography

Wesley Tung, a former postbaccalaureate IRTA in the lab, is now in the Yale Medical School MSTP/NIH-OxCAM graduate program. After completing two years of medical school, he returned to HIDS, where he is now a second-year graduate student working on his graduate Ph.D. thesis research under the joint mentorship of Helen Su, Jelena Bezbradica, and Akiko Iwasaki. His research projects are related to SARS-CoV-2 and regulation of infection-related inflammation.