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
| Mar 30, 2020Learning 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
| Jun 17, 2019Read how the discovery of this gene could change immunotherapy cancer and viral infection treatments.
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Cells trained to recognize returning infections
| May 31, 2018The 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
| Nov 28, 2017St. Jude researchers are combining therapeutic methods that induce epigenetic reprogramming with immune checkpoint blockade to enhance cancer treatments.
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