Eric Kwon

Eric KwonEric Kwon

Education:

B.A. Washington University-Saint Louis (2024)

Advisor: 

TBA

Graduate Program: 

TBA

Research Interests:

Immunology intrigues me to delve deeper into it. Our immune system is a miraculous system with ingeniously designed fail-safes, but it simply fails to combat cancer on some occasions. I want to explore how to combat these shortcomings through cancer immunotherapy.


Publications:

Kwon, E., Namen, S., Willoughby, C. J., Kang, S., Pandey, G., Kim, A. B., & DeSelm, C. J. (2025). Preconditioning with Low-Dose Radiation Improves Antitumor Immunity and Survival in DC-Vaccinated Mice. Life, 15(9), 1402.   

Kim, A. B., Chou, S. Y., Kang, S., Kwon, E., Inkman, M., Szymanski, J., Andruska, N., Colgan, C., Zhang, J., Yang, J. C., Singh, N., & DeSelm, C. J. (2023). Intrinsic tumor resistance to CAR T cells is a dynamic transcriptional state that is exploitable with low-dose radiation. Blood advances, 7(18), 5396–5408.

Avella, D. M., Manjunath, Y., Singh, A., Deroche, C. B., Kimchi, E. T., Staveley-O'Carroll, K. F., Mitchem, J. B., Kwon, E., Li, G., & Kaifi, J. T. (2020). 18F-FDG PET/CT total lesion glycolysis is associated with circulating tumor cell counts in patients with stage I to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer. Translational lung cancer research, 9(3), 515–521.

Conference Posters/Presentations:

Kwon, E., Namen, S., Kang, S., Willoughby, C. J., Zhang, K., Pandey, G., Kim, A. B., & DeSelm, C. J. (2025, January 26-29). Low-dose radiation acts as a promising preconditioning regimen for dendritic cell vaccines [Conference oral presentation]. AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Translating Targeted Therapies in Combination with Radiotherapy. San Diego, CA, United States.