Jason Lohmueller

Dr. Jason Lohmueller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Jason is an avid synthetic biologist and immunologist who found his love for engineering biology in the iGEM program. Jason obtained his B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2007 and as an undergraduate conducted BioE research in the lab of Jeffrey Morgan and evolutionary biology research in the lab of Eric S. Lander mentored by Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Insitute. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2013 from Pamela Silver’s lab engineering mammalian synthetic gene networks. He then conducted his postdoctoral training in Olivera Finn’s lab at the University of Pittsburgh developing monoclonal antibody and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell cancer immunotherapies, funded by an American Cancer Society fellowship. Dr. Lohmueller launched his independent laboratory in 2019 at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. The lab focuses on engineering synthetic receptors and gene circuits to improve adoptive cell therapies. Click here for more information on his research.