Email

chiou-tsun.tsai@bcm.edu

Positions

Instructor

Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Education

PhD from King's College London

London, United Kingdom

Cancer Studies

MSc from National Taiwan University

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Taiwan

Microbiology and Immunology

Professional Interests

• Novel synthetic receptor design for improving T-cell functionality in cancer therapy
• Genetic engineering and development of immune cell lines for adative cell therapy

Selected Publications

• Chiou-Tsun Tsai, Norihiro Watanabe, Maksim Mamonkin "313 Enhancing anti-cancer activity of therapeutic T-cells with a synapse-stabilizing receptor." Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 2023 Nov 1;(Suppl 1)
• Feiyan Mo, Chiou-Tsun Tsai, Rong Zheng, Chonghui Cheng, Helen E Heslop, Malcolm K Brenner, Maksim Mamonkin, Norihiro Watanabe "Human platelet lysate enhances in vivo activity of CAR-Vδ2 T cells by reducing cellular senescence and apoptosis." Cytotherapy. 2024 Aug;26:858. Pubmed PMID: 38506769