Dr. Yosuke Kumamoto, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Center for Immunity Inflammation and the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, joined in June 2017, and he studies the role of dendritic cell subsets in adaptive immunity and inflammation. Dr. Kumamoto discovered a subset of dendritic cells (DCs) expressing CD301b and found that CD301b+ DCs are selectively required for the differentiation of Th2 cells as well as for the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis. His research is focused around the biology of DC-T cell interaction and the role of DCs in type 2 inflammation in the skin and lung in allergy, tumor and infectious diseases.
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Area of Study/Expertise
- Adaptive immunity; Dendritic cells; Immunology; Inflammation; T cells
- yosuke.kumamoto@rutgers.edu