Ajith Vasanthakumar

@ajithvasanthan

Associate Professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Interested in gene regulation, metabolism, tissue and tumour immunology. Views my own.

Melbourne, Victoria petermac.org/research/resea… Joined December 2009

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Ajith Vasanthakumar @ajithvasanthan Feb 26, 2020

Excited to share our latest research published today in
@nature on sex-differences in adipose resident Treg cells @TheDohertyInst @WEHI_research @ASImmunology. Big thanks to our collaborators from
@MonashPharm @PeterMacCC @Austin_Health @harvardmed
nature.com/articles/s4158…

www.nature.com Sex-specific adipose tissue imprinting of regulatory T cells Nature - Visceral adipose tissue contains populations of regulatory T cells that exhibit sexual dimorphism, determined by the surrounding niche, and differ between male and female mice in terms of...

Ajith Vasanthakumar @ajithvasanthan Oct 23

Super cool study…congrats to everyone!!

Overacre Lab @OveracreLab Oct 22

Very excited to share our latest paper, out today in Cell, led by @ItzDipyaman! This project started out with a curiosity as to how and why irAEs happen. Even more peculiar is that WT mice never develop irAEs…and why was that?

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
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Ajith Vasanthakumar @ajithvasanthan Aug 20

It was our pleasure to host Prof Peter Savage at @PeterMacCC and to hear his fantastic talk on Tregs. Amazing to see the excellent turn out. Thank you ⁦@ASImmunology⁩ for sponsoring Pete’s visit

Ajith Vasanthakumar @ajithvasanthan Jul 4

Thank you for highlighting our work

Waggoner Lab @LabWaggoner Jul 4

Pregnancy-induced tissue-resident memory-like T cells contribute to tumor control in breast cancer
nature.com/articles/s4159…
@NatImmunol @TabiHussain @PeterMacCC @KalliesLab @DrKaraBritt

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Ajith Vasanthakumar @ajithvasanthan Jul 3

I’m excited to share our latest study, published today in @NatImmunol It has been long known that pregnancy reduces the risk of developing breast cancer, yet the biological mechanisms underlying this protection have remained largely unknown. nature.com/articles/s4159…

www.nature.com Pregnancy-induced tissue-resident memory-like T cells contribute to tumor control in breast cancer Nature Immunology - Here the authors identify an abundance of a tissue-resident memory-like T cell population in the breasts of women who have given birth. These cells can contribute to tumor...