Prof. Jianxun Song is a professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, the United States. The basis of the expertise on T cell biology needed to perform his research began to develop while he was a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist in the years 2001-2007 under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Croft at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. He became a junior faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 2007 and extended his research on Developmental Immunology and Stem Cell Biology. As a PI on previous university-, foundation-, and NIH-funded grants, he laid the groundwork for the research by developing highly reactive T lymphocytes from pluripotent stem cells (PSC). His laboratory was the first to show that induced PSC differentiate into functional T cells for cell-based therapies. In addition to having the expertise needed to be successful in this research, he offers leadership and administrative skills that were developed during his independence as a mentor of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. In summary, he has a demonstrated record of successful and productive research projects in the area.