Victor K. Yu

Education:  
University of California - Berkeley
Molecular and Cell Biology major
B.A., 2021

MSTP Student Governance:

• Student Advisory Committee, 2023-24

Victor is currently in the first year of Medical School training and is rotating through labs while preparing to select a thesis advisor.

Publications:

For work prior to the UMN MSTP

Bousbaine D, Bauman KD, Chen YE, Yu VK, Lalgudi PV, Naziripour A, Veinbachs A, Phung JL, Nguyen TTD, Swenson JM, Lee YE, Dimas A, Jain S, Meng X, Pham TPT, Zhao A, Barkal L, Gribonika I, Van Rompay KKA, Belkaid Y, Barnes CO, Fischbach MA. Discovery and engineering of the antibody response against a prominent skin commensal. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jan 23:2024.01.23.576900. PMCID: PMC10849572

Chen YE, Bousbaine D, Veinbachs A, Atabakhsh K, Dimas A, Yu VK, Zhao A, Enright NJ, Nagashima K, Belkaid Y, Fischbach MA. Engineered skin bacteria induce antitumor T cell responses against melanoma. Science. 2023 Apr 14;380(6641):203-210.