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Dr Michael Birnbaum
Meet Michael, Team Lead of MATCHMAKERS
Michael is an immunologist and molecular engineer who has spent his career working to understand and manipulate T cell recognition.
He has devised multiple technologies to study T cell recognition in high throughput, and combined them with computational approaches to better predict what T cells recognize in the context of cancer, infectious disease, and autoimmunity. His lab uses this information to design new therapeutic strategies to target tumors.
Michael completed his PhD in Immunology at Stanford University, and is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biological Engineering at MIT. He is a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Resaerch, and of the Ragon Institue of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.