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Innate immune cell researchers

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Nancy Hogg

Nancy Hogg is an immunologist who led the Leukocyte Adhesion Laboratory in London and is known for LFA-1 integrin research and identifying KINDLIN3 mutations as the cause of leukocyte adhesion deficiency-III.

Paul Kubes

Paul Kubes is a Canadian immunologist at the University of Calgary known for using intravital microscopy to image how neutrophils and macrophages fight bacteria in living tissue.

Richard B. Johnston

Richard B. Johnston is an American pediatric allergist and immunologist known for complement and phagocyte research, a 1973 sickle-cell study, and leadership at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Roy R. Lobb

Roy R. Lobb is an immunologist and biotechnology executive who identified the VCAM-1/VLA-4 adhesion pathway enabling Tysabri, led research at Biogen, and co-founded Aleta Biotherapeutics.

Samuel D. Wright

Samuel D. Wright is an immunologist who worked at Rockefeller University and later Merck Research Laboratories, known for identifying the CR3 receptor and the LPS–CD14 endotoxin recognition pathway.

Sidney Pestka

Sidney Pestka (1936–2016) was an American biochemist known as the "Father of Interferon" for first purifying and cloning interferon and developing the recombinant drug Roferon A.

Tanya N. Mayadas

Tanya N. Mayadas, also published as Tanya Mayadas, is an immunologist known for work on neutrophil recruitment in autoimmune disease; she moved to the University of Rochester in 2025.

Timothy A. Springer

Timothy A. Springer is an American immunologist at Harvard Medical School who showed that white blood cells use integrin adhesion molecules to enter tissues, work that produced approved drugs.

Triantafyllos Chavakis

Triantafyllos Chavakis is a Greek-born German clinician-scientist and immunologist at TU Dresden who showed that trained innate immunity is initiated in bone marrow stem cells.

Vishwa Deep Dixit

Vishwa Deep Dixit (Vishwa D. Dixit) is an immunometabolism researcher at Yale School of Medicine who directs the Yale Center for Research on Aging and studies inflammation in aging.

Yun Sok Lee

Yun Sok Lee is an immunometabolism researcher and Associate Professor In Residence in medicine at UC San Diego, studying inflammation, hypoxia, and metabolism in obesity and diabetes.

Zanvil A. Cohn

Zanvil A. Cohn, also known as Z. A. Cohn (1926–1993), was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who founded modern macrophage biology and co-discovered the dendritic cell.