The Lee lab at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC located in Roanoke, VA is recruiting Postdoctoral Associate. The research aim of our lab is to develop novel biomaterials that aid in modulating innate and adaptive immune responses for cancer immunotherapy. Our lab’s research interest focuses on drug/gene delivery, development of innate/adaptive immune agonists and immune cell engineering via chemical modification.
The primary role of this position is to develop novel biomaterials to re-educate tumor-homing myeloid cells and to understand how biomaterials activate innate immune responses. This project will focus on developing biomaterial-based innate immune agonists to re-educate tumor-homing macrophages or dendritic cells and revealing the therapeutic mechanisms in the setting of biomaterial treatments using several transgenic mouse strains.