Ben Youngblood, PhD
Assistant Member, Faculty
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 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
Read how the discovery of this gene could change immunotherapy cancer and viral infection treatments.
Cells trained to recognize returning infections
The former killers now recognize the enemy when it returns — and you’re better off because of it.
Supercharging T cells to fight cancer
St. Jude researchers are combining therapeutic methods that induce epigenetic reprogramming with immune checkpoint blockade to enhance cancer treatments.