Immunology and host–pathogen interactions

Adrian Hayday

Adrian Hayday is a British immunologist known for discovering gamma-delta T cells, Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology at King's College London and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2016.

Alan G. Porter

Alan G. Porter is a molecular biologist known for 1970s Nature papers on picornavirus and influenza RNA, and later apoptosis research at the National University of Singapore.

Alberto C. Frasch

Alberto Carlos Frasch (1949–2023) was an Argentine molecular biologist who described the genes of Trypanosoma cruzi surface antigens and coordinated the parasite's WHO genome project.

Amnon Altman

Amnon Altman is an Israeli-born immunologist known for T cell receptor signaling research and discovery of protein kinase C-theta, now Professor Emeritus at La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Andreas Diefenbach

Andreas Diefenbach is a German immunologist, born 1965 in Aachen, who studies innate lymphoid cells and microbiota; since 2016 he has directed the Institute of Microbiology at Charité Berlin.

Arthur Kaser

Arthur Kaser, born 1973, is a gastroenterologist and immunologist holding the University Chair of Gastroenterology at Cambridge since 2011, known for work on inflammatory bowel disease mechanisms.

Axel Kallies is an Australian–German immunologist, Professor for Molecular Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne, known for discovering Tpex cells, which maintain long-term immune responses.

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Charles Weissmann

Charles Weissmann (1931–2025) was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist who co-founded Biogen in Geneva, first cloned human interferon, and led prion research in Zurich, London, and Florida.

Christian Münz

Christian Münz, born 1969 in Wertingen, Germany, is an immunologist who directs the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich and studies immune control of Epstein–Barr virus.

Corrado Baglioni

Corrado Baglioni is a molecular biologist at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for showing that the trinucleotide 2-5A, made in interferon-treated cells, activates a nuclease that degrades mRNA.

David M. Tobin

David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.

Dinah S. Singer

Dinah S. Singer is an American molecular biologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Biology and co-chaired the Cancer Moonshot's Blue Ribbon Panel.

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Dominique Soldati-Favre is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Geneva who identified the glideosome motor of apicomplexan parasites and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Douglas R. Green

Douglas R. Green is an immunologist and cell-death researcher who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is known for apoptosis research.

Federica Sallusto

Federica Sallusto is an immunologist known for defining the two main subsets of human memory T cells and for evidence that narcolepsy is autoimmune, leading a lab in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Frances M. Brodsky

Frances M. Brodsky is an American cell biologist and immunologist known for defining how clathrin assembles and for discovering the CHC22 isoform's role in glucose metabolism.

Frank E. Young

Frank E. Young (1931–2019) was an American physician-scientist and bacteriologist who served as FDA Commissioner from 1984 to 1989 and later worked in healthcare venture capital.

Gregory Barton

Gregory M. Barton is an American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system distinguishes threatening microbes from the body's own tissues, leading Toll-like receptor research at UC Berkeley.

Hua Gu

Hua Gu is a Chinese-born immunologist who directs the Molecular Immunology Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and studies T and B cell signaling.

Jean‐Dominique Vassalli

Jean-Dominique Vassalli, also known as J D Vassalli, is a Swiss biologist born in Geneva in 1946, known for work on the plasminogen activator system and translational control of messenger RNA in mouse oocytes.

Jeffrey M. Leiden

Jeffrey M. Leiden is an American physician-scientist in molecular biology, immunology, and gene therapy who cloned key transcription factors and later served as President and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Jose M. Ribeiro

José M.C. Ribeiro is a Brazilian-American vector biologist at NIAID who defined the sialome concept and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Juan R. Cubillos‐Ruiz

Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz is a Colombian-born immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for showing how tumors disable dendritic cells via ER stress, work that spawned Quentis Therapeutics.

Judy Lieberman

Judy Lieberman is an American immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on killer lymphocytes, pyroptosis, and RNA interference as drugs.

Katherine Kedzierska

Katherine Kedzierska is an Australian viral immunologist who heads the Human T cell Laboratory at the Peter Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne, known for work on T-cell immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

Laura Mackay

Laura K. Mackay is an Australian immunologist known for her work on tissue-resident memory T cells, and is the inaugural Sir Gustav Nossal Professor of Immunology at WEHI.

Leslie Birgit Vosshall

Leslie Birgit Vosshall is an American molecular neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, an HHMI Investigator since 2008, known for discovering insect odorant receptors and how mosquitoes find humans.

Marcelo Jacobs‐Lorena

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena is a Brazil-trained molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus known for the first genetically modified malaria-resistant mosquitoes and the 2023 discovery of a bacterium that suppresses malaria transmission.

Mary Bethe Humphrey

Mary Bethe Humphrey, also published as Mary Beth Humphrey, is an American rheumatologist who leads the rheumatology division at the University of Oklahoma and studies osteoporosis.