Targeted Phagocytosis in Action
Targeted Phagocytosis in Action
Submitted by Tiffany Chen in the Wittrup Laboratory at the Koch Institute
MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Koch Institute at MIT, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
I engineer protein constructs that activate immune cells through Fc gamma receptor binding to kill targeted tumor cells. This image shows immune cells (red) engulfing tumor cells (green) that are targeted with an antibody.