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Ben Youngblood, PhD

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Ben Youngblood, PhD

Ben Youngblood, PhD, is an assistant faculty member of the Immunology Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. View full bio.

Stories by Ben Youngblood

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Research

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Learning 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.

Discovering how T cell 'exhaustion' is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy
Discovering how T cell 'exhaustion' is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy
Research

Discovering how T cell “exhaustion” is triggered could energize cancer immunotherapy

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Read how the discovery of this gene could change immunotherapy cancer and viral infection treatments.

Memory T cells hang back from the front lines of the fight, and live to lead the fight when a pathogen returns
Memory T cells hang back from the front lines of the fight, and live to lead the fight when a pathogen returns
Research

Cells trained to recognize returning infections

Ben Youngblood, PhD

The former killers now recognize the enemy when it returns — and you’re better off because of it.

Supercharging T Cells to Fight Cancer
Supercharging T Cells to Fight Cancer
Research

Supercharging T cells to fight cancer

Ben Youngblood, PhD

St. Jude researchers are combining therapeutic methods that induce epigenetic reprogramming with immune checkpoint blockade to enhance cancer treatments.