Joe (Jue) Hou, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, Corey Lab, Infectious Disease Sciences Program
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch
Utilizing computational immunology approaches to (1) reveal disease-induced specific immune responses and subsets in the temporal and spatial patterns; (2) explore the mechanism and disparity of vaccine protection; (3) discover the mechanism of individual variances in immune responses.
Education
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China, 2013, PhD (Immunology)
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China, 2010, MS (Microbiology)
Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China, 2008, BS (Biology)
Research Interests
Computational immunology
Vaccine development including vaccination strategy, formulations, and adjuvant
Immunological evaluation of vaccines
Current Projects
Spatial transcriptomics fine-mapping the immune responses and subsets in HSV-infected skin biopsy
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and Chimeric Engulfment Receptors (CER) T cells immunotherapy