Ben Youngblood, PhD

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Assistant Member, Faculty

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Ben Youngblood, PhD, is an assistant faculty member of the Immunology Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. View full bio.

POSTS By Ben Youngblood, PhD

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Posted by Ben Youngblood, PhD | Mar 30, 2020

Learning more about how the body attacks itself in Type 1 diabetes offers insights into how to harness the power of T cells to treat cancer.

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Discovering how T cell 'exhaustion' is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy

Discovering how T cell “exhaustion” is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy

Posted by Ben Youngblood, PhD | Jun 17, 2019

Read how the discovery of this gene could change immunotherapy cancer and viral infection treatments.

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Memory T cells hang back from the front lines of the fight, and live to lead the fight when a pathogen returns

Cells trained to recognize returning infections

Posted by Ben Youngblood, PhD | May 31, 2018

The former killers now recognize the enemy when it returns — and you’re better off because of it.

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Supercharging T Cells to Fight Cancer

Supercharging T cells to fight cancer

Posted by Ben Youngblood, PhD | Nov 28, 2017

St. Jude researchers are combining therapeutic methods that induce epigenetic reprogramming with immune checkpoint blockade to enhance cancer treatments.

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