New York University
Project Title: Programmable Off-the-Shelf Dendritic Cells as an Immunotherapy Discovery Platform
Award Year: 2021
Biography
David Truong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and associated faculty in the Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received a B.S. from University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, and NRSA F32-supported postdoctoral training with Dr. Jef D. Boeke at NYU Langone Health. Prior to starting his research group, he was a founding team member of Neochromosome Inc with support of an NIAID small business innovative research award. The Truong lab combines site-specific “bigDNA” genome writing in human iPSCs with cell state programming and synthetic genetic circuits to build universal allogeneic “smart cells” for therapeutics, diagnostics, and modeling.