Dr. Joseph Barbi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center with a background in cellular immunology and immune control. He previously trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after obtaining his PhD from The Ohio State University. Dr. Barbi’s research program explores the mechanisms regulating the anti-tumor immune response with emphasis on the factors that impact suppressor cells such as Regulatory T cells. Through an ongoing collaboration with Drs. Sai Yendamuri and Santosh Patnaik and others, Dr. Barbi’s lab is dissecting the complex effects of obesity on immune control and disease outcomes in lung cancer. By deploying immunological, biochemical, transcriptomic, metabolic, and mouse model approaches, Dr. Barbi and colleagues are working to better understand the effects of obesity on immune control in the lung and how these may be targeted therapeutically for better cancer treatment and prevention outcomes.