Ammarina Beumer-Chuwonpad

After obtaining my Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences (Infection & Immunity program, University Utrecht) in 2015, I obtained my PhD degree at Sanquin Research/University of Amsterdam in 2023. My research focused on CD8⁺ tissue-resident memory T cells and exploring their proliferative and cytotoxic potential for therapeutic purposes.

My previous work has sparked and interest in the field of onco-immunology. As a result, I started a postdoctoral fellowship at the VUmc Cancer center Amsterdam, where I got the opportunity to collaborate with Leila Akkari. I joined her lab in March 2025, where I now study immune cell regulations in the (human) glioblastoma tumor microenvironment.