Sytse Piersma, PhD

Sytse Piersma, PhD

Primary Academic Title

Instructor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine

Research Interest

Improving immunotherapy through studying natural killer (NK) cells

Education

  • 2010: PhD, clinical oncology and immunohematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands

Training

  • 2009 - 2011: Postdoctoral fellow, medical microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht
  • 2011 - 2013: Postdoctoral fellow, rheumatology, Washington University, St. Louis
  • 2013 - 2014: Researcher, oncology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
  • 2014 - present: Postdoctoral fellow, rheumatology, Washington University

Selected Research Publications

Unleashing NK cells for cancer immunotherapy in lung cancer: biologic challenges and clinical advances.
  • McLaughlin Q, Sojka DK, Kennedy K, Piersma SJ , Sethakorn N
  • J Exp Clin Cancer Res 2025
Shared pathway of WDFY4-dependent cross-presentation of immune complexes by cDC1 and cDC2.
  • Jo S, Ohara RA, Theisen DJ, [...] Piersma SJ, [...] Murphy KM
  • J Exp Med 2025
Cis-regulatory evolution of the recently expanded Ly49 gene family.
  • Fan C, Xing X, Murphy SJH, [...] Piersma SJ, [...] Wang T
  • Nat Commun 2024

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