Professor Xuetao Cao
Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou
Professor Cao’s major interests are dendritic cell immunobiology, signal transduction in tumour cells and immune cells, immune regulation and immunotherapy. He identified a new regulatory dendritic cell (DC) subset and found that splenic stroma could drive mature DC to differentiate into regulatory DC. He proposed several new approaches for DC-based immunotherapy and gene therapy of cancer, including colon cancer.