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The Alan Houghton Lab

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Alan Houghton, MD

The Houghton Laboratory includes an interesting mix of molecular biologists, immunologists, medical oncologists, and surgeons. This environment provides cross-fertilization of scientists and clinical investigators.

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Cancer immunologist Alan Houghton
At Work: Immunologist Alan Houghton
Cancer immunologist Alan Houghton shares his research and patient care experiences, including his insights from living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Alan Houghton with Pathologist Kay Park, Chair of the Junior Faculty Council
Alan Houghton Receives Mentorship Award
Memorial Sloan Kettering's Junior Faculty Council presented its 2008 Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Alan N. Houghton, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine and incumbent of the Virginia and Daniel K. Ludwig Clinical Chair.

Publications Highlights

Ferrone CR, Perales MA, Goldberg SM, Somberg CJ, Hirschhorn-Cymerman D, Gregor PD, Turk MJ, Ramirez-Montagut T, Gold JS, Houghton AN, Wolchok JD. Adjuvanticity of plasmid DNA encoding cytokines fused to immunoglobulin Fc domains.Clin Cancer Res. 2006;12(18):5511-9.

Perales MA, Diab A, Cohen AD, Huggins DW, Guevara-Patino JA, Hubbard VM, Engelhorn ME, Kochman AA, Eng JM, Mortazavi F, Alpdogan O, Terwey TH, Heller G, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN, van den Brink MR. DNA immunization against tissue-restricted antigens enhances tumor immunity after allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. J Immunol. 2006;177(6):4159-67.

Uchi H, Stan R, Turk MJ, Engelhorn ME, Rizzuto GA, Goldberg SM, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN. Unraveling the complex relationship between cancer immunity and autoimmunity: lessons from melanoma and vitiligo. Adv Immunol.2006;90:215-41.

Guevara-Patino JA, Engelhorn ME, Turk MJ, Liu C, Duan F, Rizzuto G, Cohen AD, Merghoub T, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN. Optimization of a self antigen for presentation of multiple epitopes in cancer immunity. J Clin Invest. 2006;116(5):1382-90.

Engelhorn ME, Guevara-Patiño JA, Noffz G, Hooper AT, Lou O, Gold JS, Kappel BJ, Houghton AN. Autoimmunity and tumor immunity induced by immune responses to mutations in self. Nature Med. 2006; 2:198-206.

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People

Pictured: Alan Houghton

Alan Houghton, MD

  • Cancer immunologist Alan Houghton studies the immune response to cancer, immune recognition of self and mutated molecules, and development of new immunotherapies.
  • MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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Members

Francesca Avogadri-Connors

Research Associate

Sadna Budhu

Research Fellow

Andre Burey

Research Technician

Czrina Anne Cortez

Research Technician

Humilidad (Millie) Gallardo

Research Laboratory Manager

Polly Gregor

Assistant Laboratory Member

Daniel Hirschhorn-Cymerman

Research Associate

Alan Houghton, MD
Alan Houghton

Member

Yanyun Li

Research Assistant

Cailian Liu

Research Assistant

Jeanie Melson
Teresa Rasalan

Research Assistant

David Schaer

Research Associate

Stephanie Terzulli

Project Manager

Shakuntala Tiwari

Research Assistant

Xia Yang

Senior Research Technician

Feng Zhao

Research Assistant

Hong Zhong

Senior Research Technician

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