4/11/19 Acknowleding and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab (Mission Bay)
2/16/21 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
We study tumor evolution, drug sensitization and oncogene network alterations in patients in order to improve precision medicine therapies for hormone-related and genitourinary cancers.
We use synthetic biology and high-throughput functional genetic screens to understand antigen presentation and T-cell recognition in the context of cancer and other diseases.
We study host and pathogen mechanisms that regulate growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria. We are using proteomic and genetic tools to probe host responses to infection in macrophages and animal models.
Dr. Butte builds and applies tools that convert more than 400 trillion points of molecular, clinical, and epidemiological data into diagnostics, therapeutics, and new insights into disease.