Thursday, September 26th, 2019, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Boulevard Room, Pierpont Commons (North Campus)
2101 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Dr. James Moon is John Gideon Searle Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Moon received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley (2002), and his Ph.D. from Rice University (2008), and he completed his postdoctoral training at MIT (HHMI). His translational research program aims to develop novel engineering tools for improving vaccines and immunotherapies.
Dr. Moon has received numerous awards, including 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2016 DOD-CDMRP Career Development Award, 2015 Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award, the 2012 NIAID Research Scholar Development Award, and the 2011 IEEE- EMBS Harvard Wyss Institute Award for Translational Research.
The Moon Laboratory is interested in the development of therapeutics and diagnostics at the interface of immunology and engineering. Specifically, they are developing new drug delivery systems that can enhance targeting of antigen and adjuvant to lymphoid organs, thereby manipulating immune functions in the context of cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmunity. Their translational research focused on immunoengineering utilizes tools of nanotechnology, biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and advanced in vitro/in vivo high-throughput methods to detect and improve immune functions. One thrust of their research is the development of a nanoparticle vaccine that can induce anti-tumoral cellular immune responses for cancer immunotherapy. The second thrust in the lab focuses on the synthesis of novel biomaterials for mucosal immunization against infectious pathogens, including HIV.