Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project Title: Engineering Synthetic Cellular Crosstalk for Transplantation Tolerance
Award Year: 2022
Biography
Dr. Ma obtained his Ph.D. degree in biomedical sciences from Dr. Michael Green’s lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2016. Following graduation, Dr. Ma continued his postdoctoral fellowship in Immunotherapy and Immune Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute under the guidance of Dr. Darrell Irvine. During his fellowship, Dr. Ma developed a first-of-its-kind synthetic booster vaccine to enhance the Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy for solid tumors, and he was supported by American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship from 2019-2021. In 2022, Dr. Ma was appointed as an assistant professor in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Ma received funding from W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, Melanoma Research Alliance, Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation and NIAID (DP2).