Bryan McDonald, Ph.D.
About

I’m an immunologist specializing in T cell biology and epigenetic regulation of immune responses. I earned my doctorate at the Salk Institute, studying transcription factor–driven chromatin remodeling in CD8+ T cells during infection and cancer.
Background
- NewLimit 2023–present
- Developing medicines for age-related disease.
- Salk Institute · UC San Diego 2018–2023
- Ph.D. Thesis: Canonical BAF complex activity licenses effector and memory CD8+ T cell fates, with Drs. Susan Kaech and Diana Hargreaves.
- Bristol Myers Squibb 2016–2018
- Tumor immunology, including Fc-optimized anti-CCR8 antibodies for depleting tumor regulatory T cells.
- La Jolla Institute for Immunology 2012–2016
- Innate and T cell immunity to cytomegalovirus, with Dr. Chris Benedict.