Professional Background
Hubert Tse completed his undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech (B.S., 1992). He performed his graduate work on M. xanthus differentiation with Dr. Ronald E. Gill in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1999 and went on to a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Andrea Cooper’s group at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO studying macrophage responses following M. avium infection. In 2001, he went and did a second post-doctoral immunology fellowship in Dr. Jon Piganelli’s group at the University of Pittsburgh studying the autoimmune mechanisms involved in pancreatic beta-cell destruction in Type 1 diabetes. In 2009, he moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and started his own research lab. Over the next 13 years, Dr. Tse developed research programs studying genetics, innate immune (macrophage, dendritic cell), adaptive immune (CD4 and CD8 T cell), and beta-cell responses involved in Type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation rejection. In 2023, Dr. Tse and his lab was recruited to KUMC. Dr. Tse is currently serving as the Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology. He is also affiliated with the Diabetes Institute at KUMC to foster additional research programs on Type 1 diabetes.
- BS, Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, Host Defense, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, Autoimmunity, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
