Dr. Yong-Chen “William” Lu is an assistant professor at the Department of Pathology, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, UAMS. He received his Ph.D. training in Medical Biophysics at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. After finishing his Ph.D. training in 2009, he became a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, under Dr. Steven Rosenberg, a pioneer in cancer immunotherapy. He was later promoted to the staff scientist position in 2016. He was recruited to the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute in early 2021. Dr. Lu’s research focuses on the development of effective T cell-based immunotherapies for patients with metastatic cancers. He has played a pivotal role in the successful cancer treatments using the T-cell therapies targeting shared cancer antigens or patient-specific mutated antigens. More recently, he utilizes single-cell sequencing technologies to facilitate the development of new T-cell therapies against cancer.