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Yanshu Cai
MSc
DPhil Student
I hold a BSc in Pharmacology from University College London and an MSc in Integrated Immunology from the University of Oxford. My interest in cancer science began when I joined Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco’s group at the Oxford Centre for Immuno-Oncology for my MSc research project. I have since continued working in the same group as a research assistant for the past two years, focusing on understanding the role of tertiary lymphoid structures and CD4⁺ T follicular helper cells in colorectal cancer.
Currently, I am undertaking my first rotation project (DPhil in Cancer Science), supervised by Dr Maria Aggelakopoulou and Prof Tim Elliott. The project aims to establish human lung cancer organoids to track the differentiation and kinetics of the adaptive immune response to different mRNA-LNP formulations. My long-term goal is to understand mechanisms of pre-cancer evolution to enable immunoprevention through the discovery of novel vaccine targets.