Jennifer Wargo

Jennifer Wargo is a Senior Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on cancer immunotherapy, melanoma, tumor immunology, and the role of the microbiome in treatment response. Recent work investigates how gut and intratumoral microbiota influence immunotherapy outcomes, including dietary fiber’s impact on melanoma and sarcoma patients, and spatial transcriptomics of bacterial niches in oral and colorectal cancers. She has also examined BRAF-targeted therapy effects on host immunity. Her awards include a 2016 grant on checkpoint inhibitor immune biology.