Santiago Zelenay, PhD profile page

Dr. Santiago Zelenay obtained his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Buenos Aires in 2002, where he worked on DNA vaccines. He then undertook his PhD in immunology at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, studying the origin and function of regulatory T cells.
In 2008, Santiago joined the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute and later The Francis Crick Institute, where he investigated innate immune receptors and signaling pathways that trigger dendritic cell activation and drive T cell responses against viruses or tumours.
In 2015, Santiago joined the CRUK Manchester Institute to set up his own lab, the Cancer Inflammation and Immunity group. In 2017, he was awarded the CRUK Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize and in 2019, along with co-authors of Zelenay et al. Cell 2015, he received the inaugural BIAL Award in Biomedicine. Santiago leads the Cancer Immunology Branch of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation and the Immunology theme of the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence.