Kai Wucherpfennig

Chair, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Kai Wucherpfennig received his MD in 1986 and his PhD in 1987 from the University of Goettingen, Germany. He completed research fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. In 1995, he joined DFCI, where he is principally involved in basic laboratory research that focuses on T cell biology and the role of T cells in cancer immunology.