Derin Keskin

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Health Informatics

  • Title Adjunct Associate Professor in the Health Informatics
  • Education Ph.D. Medical College of Georgia
    M.S. Istanbul University
    B.S. Istanbul University

Dr. Derin Keskin has more than twenty years of teaching experience, and has taught courses related to human physiology, anatomy, and health informatics at BU’s Metropolitan College since 2015. Dr. Keskin is currently the principal scientist with the Translational Immunogenomics Lab at Harvard Medical School, teaching affiliate Dana-Farber Cancer Center. Keskin also serves as an affiliated associate professor at Denmark Technical Institute. He additionally holds a position as an affiliated research scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Keskin’s research focuses on vaccine immunotherapies, autoimmune diseases, and cancer immunology. He has been involved with preclinical development, such as efficacy and safety studies, in vaccine research and has more than a decade of experience in T cell-based vaccine design against cancers and viruses such as influenza, HIV, and HPV. Keskin has extensive experience planning and managing entire immunological projects, including people, study design, financials, execution, analysis, troubleshooting, and FDA/IND applications/reporting. He has been an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Nature CancerAnnals of OncologyMolecular MedicineJournal of Immunological MethodsAdvances in Clinical ChemistryNeurotoxicity ResearchJournal of Investigative Dermatology, and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Journal.

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