Dr Brandon Dekosky

Dr. Brandon DeKosky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT and a Core Member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard, and MIT. Research efforts at the DeKosky lab have developed a suite of high-throughput single-cell platforms for large-scale analyses of adaptive immunity. These efforts are advancing new approaches in biologic drug discovery, and for cataloguing the vast genetic and functional diversity of adaptive immune cells in human disease settings. The group’s research includes mapping the T cell receptor targets of immunity against cancer, and the identification of precision antibodies with desired functional activities.

Dr. DeKosky has been awarded several honors for his research program. His Ph.D. research was supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and an NSF Graduate Fellowship. In 2016, DeKosky was awarded a K99 Pathway to Independence Award and an NIH Early Independence Award. More recently he has also received a Department of Defense Career Development Award, the Biomedical Engineering Society Rising Star Award, the James S. Huston Antibody Science Talent Award, and the Amgen Young Investigator award.