Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology and is the Director of the Hormone Research Institute in the Diabetes Center. His research over the past 25 years has focused on understanding the basic processes that control T cell activation and immune tolerance in autoimmunity and organ transplantation.
Dr. Jonathan Esensten leads an experimental cellular therapy process development and manufacturing group. His group focusses on improving techniques for manufacturing T cell based therapies for patients with autoimmune disease, solid organ transplant, and cancer. He was a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Wendell Lim. He is co-director of the clinical Regulatory T Cell Manufacturing Group. He is also Medical Director of the UCSF HICTF and GMP Facility.
