Jeff Ishizuka

Dr. Ishizuka is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Immunobiology and Pathology at Yale School of Medicine. He is the principal investigator of a basic and translational immuno-oncology laboratory and a practicing medical oncologist at Yale Cancer Center. He completed his D.Phil. in Immunology at Oxford University and the National Institutes of Health on a Rhodes Scholarship. He subsequently pursued his medical doctorate at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His laboratory focuses on defining and targeting mechanisms of tumor inflammation to improve immunotherapy with a particular focus on triggering dsRNA sensing pathways, the use of functional genomics to identify novel therapeutic targets and the development of new human translational approaches. He has helped to initiate and develop or served as scientific advisor to several oncology and immuno-oncology companies including Jounce Therapeutics, Kronos Bio and Tango Therapeutics.