Bryan McDonald, Ph.D.

About

Portrait of Bryan McDonald

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.
rss facebook twitter github youtube mail spotify instagram linkedin google pinterest medium vimeo gscholar