Julian Smazynski is a Research Associate at the BC Cancer Deeley Research Centre. Julian completed his BSc (Hons) in Microbiology at the University of Victoria in the lab of Dr. Julian Lum (BC Cancer – Deeley Research Centre) and his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Victoria in the lab of Dr. Brad Nelson (BC Cancer – Deeley Research Centre). His work is currently focused on designing novel combinatorial therapies utilizing Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells and Oncolytic Viruses (OV), and leads the Flow Cytometry Core of the Molecular and Cellular Immunology Core (MCIC).
Projects
- Combinatorial CAR T cell and oncolytic virus immunotherapies
- Novel genetic engineering of immunoreceptors
- Tissue Resident Memory (TRM) T cell immunology
- TIGIT/CD155 mediated immune suppression
- Cellular immunology, cellular engineering, adoptive cell therapies, oncolytic virus therapies
- High dimensional flow cytometry
Credentials
- BSc. Hons (Microbiology), University of Victoria, 2016
- PhD (Biochemistry), University of Victoria, 2022