Jeffrey Rathmell joins our community this summer as a director of the Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago, where he will also chair the Ben May Department for Cancer Research. He joins us from Vanderbilt University, where he currently holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Immunobiology at the School of Medicine. Jeff’s expertise is in immunometabolism, which explores the molecular crosstalk between systemic and tissue-specific metabolism and immune cells. His laboratory has made notable contributions to our understanding of the dynamism and functional significance of T cell metabolic programs, uncovering clues to their potential manipulation for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. It has also made major discoveries about how metabolic states such as obesity influence the anti-tumor activity of T cells and macrophages. Jeff completed his doctoral studies in immunology at Stanford University, his postdoctoral stints in immunology and cancer biology at the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania and joined the faculty at Duke University before moving to Vanderbilt in 2015. He will take the helm at the Chicago Center on July 1, serving as co-director with Ralph Weichselbaum.
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