Jeffrey Ishizuka, MD, DPhil
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Assistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Ishizuka is a medical oncologist who treats melanoma patients and Principal Investigator of the Ishizuka Lab. His laboratory studies the tumor-immune microenvironment and seeks to uncover novel approaches by which inflammation can be manipulated to improve cancer immunotherapies.
Appointments
Medical Oncology
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryPathology
Assistant ProfessorSecondaryImmunobiology
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Immunology
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Human and Translational Immunology Program
- Immunobiology
- Immunology
- Internal Medicine
- Janeway Society
- Medical Oncology
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Pathology
- Pathology Research
- Skin & Kidney Cancer Program
- Subset Medical Oncology Faculty
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
Education & Training
- Clinical Fellow / Post-doc
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham and Women's Hospital (2019)
- Resident
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (2015)
- MD
- Harvard Medical School, Medicine (2013)
- DPhil
- Oxford University, Immunology (2008)
- BA
- Williams College, Chemistry
Research
Clinical Care
Overview
Jeffrey Ishizuka, MD, is a medical oncologist who treats patients with melanoma (a type of skin cancer) at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
An active researcher, Dr. Ishizuka also runs a tumor immunology lab where he seeks out new ways to use the immune system to treat cancer and benefit cancer patients.
Dr. Ishizuka earned a DPhil (doctor of philosophy, which is equivalent to a PhD), in immunology studying CD8+ T cells, a type of immune cell that is capable of attacking and killing tumor cells. These cells have been shown to be critical mediators of response to immunotherapies used in melanoma and other diseases.
He completed medical school at Harvard University, internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and medical oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Ishizuka is an assistant professor of medicine (oncology), pathology and immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine.
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