Stefani Spranger
Dr. Stefani Spranger received her B.S./ M.S. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and continued her doctoral work there under Professor Dolores J. Schendel at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Munich, Institute for Molecular Immunology, receiving her Ph.D. in 2011. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago in the laboratory of Professor Thomas F. Gajewski. During this period, she was supported by the German Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and subsequently received the Irvington postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Cancer Research Institute. In 2017, she joined the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology at MIT as an Assistant Professor of Biology at MIT. She is a Forbeck scholar. The labs primary interest is in understanding the underlying mechanisms of the interactions between tumor and immune cells, with the goal to understand mechanisms of immune evasion and develop therapies allowing more patients to benefit from immunotherapy.
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