Josef Alavi

From the Bay Area in California, Josef graduated from Berkeley with a BA in biochemistry. As an undergraduate, he worked in Dr. Michael Rape's lab, exploring the role of ubiquitin ligases in ALS pathology. Before joining Yale, he was a member of Dr. Kole Roybal's lab at UCSF building engineered T cells which modulate the tumor microenvironment to augment cellular therapies against solid tumors.