Professor Tao Dong is the Ita Askonas Professor of Translational Immunology at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, as well as a Founding Director of both the CAMS-Oxford joint International Centre for Translational Immunology and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI).

Professor Dong has a longstanding commitment to understanding the role of T-cells in disease protection or pathogenesis, with implications for patient outcomes, vaccine design, and novel therapeutics. By linking functional data with multi-omic single cell and T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire analysis, her group is investigating and identifying potential targets and pathways to augment and control the immune response as a way of improving the outcome of several important human diseases, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, Monkeypox virus infection and cancer.

Professor Dong said:

I am honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Credit goes to the wonderful members of my group, past and present, as well as my mentors and collaborators, the wonderful research environment provided by the Nuffield Department of Medicine and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine.

Prof. Dong is among the 60 new Fellows announced this year and will be formally admitted to the Academy at a ceremony on Tuesday 30 June.