Cellular Immunotherapy

Zhou Penghui

周鹏辉

Professor · Doctoral Supervisor

Professor, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center

Development and clinical translation of cellular immunotherapies for solid tumours, including individualised TCR-T and TAL-T cell therapies now in phase I trials.

Professional Profile

Professor Zhou has spent his career on the development and clinical application of immunotherapeutic drugs for solid tumours. His work has been published in Nature, Cell, Nature Medicine, Cell Research, JCI and PNAS, and several of his patents have been licensed for translation.

He led the development of three new immunotherapeutic approaches — individualised TCR-T cell therapy, TCR-T cell therapy designed to reverse the immunosuppressive solid-tumour microenvironment, and TAL-T cell therapy — which have entered phase I clinical trials.

Areas of Expertise

  • Solid tumour immunotherapy
  • TCR-T cell therapy
  • TAL-T cell therapy
  • Tumour microenvironment
  • Cell therapy translation

Academic & Professional Appointments

  • Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
  • State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China
  • PhD in Immunology, University of Michigan
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
  • Selected for the national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" (leading talent)
  • Selected for the "Recruitment Program of Global Experts"

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