Dr. Alok Kumar

Biography

Dr. Alok Kumar is working as 'Associate Researcher' under Prof. Tasuku Honjo (Nobel Prize, Medicine, 2018) at Kyoto University. His work on the 'Mechanism of unresponsiveness to the PD-1 blockade therapy' is internationally recognized. He obtained his master degree (M.Sc. Biotechnology) from a very reputed 'Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India'. During his master studies, he worked on multi-drug resistant gram negative bacteria and generated a combinatorial cocktail to inhibit their growth.



Research Interest's

Dr. Alok Kumar Research Interests are cancer biology; immunology; T cell biology; cancer immunotherapy; checkpoint blockade therapy (PD-1, CTLA-4)