Immunology Program

The Ming Li Lab

Ming Li, PhD

The pervasive influence of the immune system on human health and disease underscores the importance of mechanistic understanding of immune regulation under pathophysiological conditions. Modern immunology is built on the foundation of clonal selection and pattern recognition theories that emphasize innate and adaptive immune recognition in controlling immune responses.

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Featured News

SKI Scientists Identify Potential New ‘Soldier’ for Cancer Immunotherapy

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The new cells, which the scientists have dubbed killer innate-like T cells, differ in several notable ways from the conventional target of many immunotherapies.

Sloan Kettering Institute Scientists Solve a 100-Year-Old Mystery about Cancer

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Scientists have long known that cancer cells and immune cells have an uncommon hunger for glucose but haven’t understood why. A new study offers an answer.

In the Lab

MSK-led Studies Support the Concept of “Cancer Environment Immunotherapy”

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Targeting the cancer environment, rather than the cancer itself, could be a new avenue for immunotherapy.

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Publications

E.R. Kansler, S. Dadi, C. Krishna, B.G. Nixon, E.G. Stamatiades, M. Liu, F. Kuo, J. Zhang, X. Zhang, K. Capistrano, K.A. Blum, K. Weiss, R.M. Kedl, G. Cui, K. Ikuta, T.A. Chan, C.S. Leslie, A.A. Hakimi, M.O. Li. Cytotoxic Innate Lymphoid Cells Sense Cancer Cell-Expressed Interleukin-15 to Suppress Human and Murine Malignancies. Nat Immunol. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41590-022-01213-2

C. Chou, X. Zhang, C. Krishna, B.G. Nixon, S. Dadi, K.J. Capistrano, E.R. Kansler, M. Steele, J. Han, A. Shyu, J. Zhang, E.G. Stamatiades, M. Liu, S. Li, M.H. Do, D.S. Kang, C. Chen, I.H. Wei, E.P. Pappou, M.R. Weiser, J. Garcia-Aguilar, J.J. Smith, C.S. Leslie, M.O. Li. Programme of Self-Reactive Innate-Like T Cell-Mediated Cancer Immunity. Nature 2022, 605: 139-145.

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People

Ming Li, PhD

Immunologist Ming Li studies mechanisms of immune regulation, and their relevance to diseases including cancer.
PhD, Columbia University

[email protected]: Email Address
646-888-2371: Office Phone

Members

Alexandra Ramadhin
Administrative Assistant II

Jennifer Tsai

MD, Ph.D Fellow

Zijian Xu

Research Associate

Lab Alumni

Saida Dadi, PhD — Saida Dadi
Research Fellow

Chong Luo
Associate Director at Tome Biosciences, Cambridge, MA

Soyoung Oh, PhD — Soyoung Oh
Research Fellow

Min Peng, PhD — Min Peng
Research Fellow

Omar Beckett

Research Technician

Kristelle Capistrano
Senior Research Technician

Chun Chou, Research Fellow — Chun Chou
Research Fellow

Sophia Gonzalez

Administrative Assistant II

Ilona Gutcher

Research Fellow

Davina Kang

Lab Technician

Abira Sarkar

Research Fellow

Wei Shi, Research Scholar — Wei Shi
Research Scholar

Weiming Ouyang, PhD — Weiming Ouyang
Research Associate

Lab Affiliations

Achievements

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2021)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar (2016)
AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Immunology (2016)
Scholar, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (2014)
Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator Award for Basic Research (2012)

Scholar, American Cancer Society (2012)
Scholar, Rita Allen Foundation (2008)

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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Ming Li discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

Amberstone Biosciences Inc.
Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services
Leap Therapeutics Inc.
Provision of Services

META Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services
Tango Therapeutics
Provision of Services

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