- Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Taku Kambayashi is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology at the Perelman School of Medicine. He received his BS in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1993, his PhD in immunology from Emory University in 2002, his MD from Emory in 2004, and completed clinical pathology residency, transfusion medicine fellowship, and postdoctoral training at Penn from 2004 to 2008.
The Kambayashi laboratory studies the regulation of T cell responses, regulatory T cell biology, NK cell signaling, and mast cell function, with active programs spanning TSLP-mediated metabolic regulation by T cells, skin barrier function and skin commensals, mouse models of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease, and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance through gametes.
Dr. Kambayashi serves as Director of the I3I Clinical Fellows Training Program, Chair of the Immunology Graduate Group, and Associate Vice Chair of Research for Pathology — a constellation of roles that places him at the center of Penn’s immunology training and research enterprise. He is a senior member of the Penn Colton Center for Autoimmunity and a frequent collaborator across mechanistic and translational autoimmunity research at Penn.
