Research Associate
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
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Fang Yun, Lim PhD; Research Associate, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
My work focuses on profiling host transcriptional responses to respiratory virus infections in both healthy individuals and transplant patients. Leveraging home collection methodologies including self-blood collection and stabilization methods, I conduct nationwide decentralized longitudinal prospective studies in the general non-hospitalized population to obtain detailed and early temporal kinetics of innate/adaptive immune responses after exposure to respiratory viral infections. In transplant patients, my work focuses on identifying blood transcriptional signatures at the time of upper respiratory tract infection that can predict progression to lower respiratory tract infections.