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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Ruslan Medzhitov is a Sterling Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His studies identified innate immune sensing pathways and established the principle of innate control of adaptive immunity. His current research is focused on inflammation biology, allergy, and evolutionary medicine. His awards include The Emil von Behring Award, Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, The Shaw Prize, Vilcek Prize, Lurie Prize, Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung Prize, Dickson Prize, and Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and EMBO, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Open to

Tri-Institutional