Jianxun SongDr. Song is Professor of Microbial Pathogenies and Immunology at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX
Is highly motivated to pursue an academic research career in Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology. The base of expertise on T ell biology needed to perform the proposed research began to develop while he was a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist from the years 2000-2007 under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Croft at La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology. As a PI on previous university-, foundation- and NIH-funded grants, he laid the groundwork for the proposed research by developing antigen-specific T lymphocytes from pluripotent stem cells.. He offered leadership and administrative skills that were developed during his independence as a mentor of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Read More Read Less