While a
postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Medical
Research Institute in Bethesda, he developed a system for large - scale efficient culture of lymphocytes that has proved to be the
foundation for over 35 early phase clinical trials of adoptive immunotherapy.
«Many of the diseases associated with childhood abuse typically emerge in middle and later stages of adulthood — decades after the abuse actually occurred,» said Chiang, a
postdoctoral fellow with Northwestern's
Foundations of Health
Research Center and its Institute for Policy
Research.
The work was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health; the Rita Allen, Whitehall, Brain
Research, Waitt, Hearst, and Richard Allan Barry Family
foundations; the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust; the Nomis, H. N. and Frances C. Berger, Fritz B. Burns, and HKT
foundations; Frederik Paulsen and Françoise Gilot - Salk; the National Cancer Institute; the William Scandling Trust; the Price Family Foundation; the Marshall Legacy Foundation; a Life Sciences
Research Foundation and Pioneer Fund
postdoctoral scholar award; and a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Catharina Foundation
postdoctoral scholar award.