Dr Yin Wu
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow & Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist
Research interests
- Cancer
Contact details
Biography
My lab aims to understand the biology of gamma-delta T cells in human tissues and cancers. These cells are seeded perinatally and developmentally into steady-state tissues without obvious inflammatory triggers. Whilst they can readily mount local and rapid responses to cancer, their presence at steady state suggests a nuanced role which balances self-tolerance versus tumour-rejection. In juxtaposition, effective and manageable cancer immunotherapy is fundamentally a balance of tolerance versus rejection. Thus, tissue-resident gamma-delta T cells would seem critical to cancer immunosurveillance as they straddle this dichotomy, yet they remain understudied in human health and disease.
Research
Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
Cancer Immunology represents a broad field of research that studies host-tumour interactions as therapeutic targets in the treatment of cancer.
Project status: Ongoing
Wu Laboratory
My lab aims to understand the biology of γδ T cells in human tissues and cancers.
News
Immune cell helps predict skin cancer patients chances of responding to treatment
A type of immune cell can help predict which patients may benefit most from cancer immunotherapies, researchers from King’s College London, Guy’s and St...
Research
Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
Cancer Immunology represents a broad field of research that studies host-tumour interactions as therapeutic targets in the treatment of cancer.
Project status: Ongoing
Wu Laboratory
My lab aims to understand the biology of γδ T cells in human tissues and cancers.
News
Immune cell helps predict skin cancer patients chances of responding to treatment
A type of immune cell can help predict which patients may benefit most from cancer immunotherapies, researchers from King’s College London, Guy’s and St...