Infection and vaccine immunity researchers

Abner Louis Notkins

Abner Louis Notkins (1932–2023) was an American viral immunologist who spent six decades at the NIH showing that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease linked to viral infection.

Akiko Iwasaki

Akiko Iwasaki is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale and an HHMI Investigator who developed the "prime and pull" vaccine strategy and identified immune mechanisms of long COVID.

Alan S. Perelson

Alan S. Perelson is an American theoretical immunologist and mathematical biologist, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory known for viral dynamics models of HIV and hepatitis C.

Alexandre Besredka (Безредка Олександр Михайлович; 27 March 1870, Odessa – 28 February 1940, Paris) was a Ukrainian-born French immunologist at the Pasteur Institute who conceived local immunity and devised the 'antivirus' treatment.

Alick Isaacs

Alick Isaacs (1921–1967) was a Scottish virologist who, working with Jean Lindenmann at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, discovered interferon in 1957 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966.

Andrea Lisco

Andrea Lisco is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and viral immunologist who leads a research unit at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying HPV-related disease in immunodeficiencies and becoming a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar in 2024.

Andrew G. Plaut

Andrew G. Plaut is a physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at Tufts in Boston, known for discovering bacterial IgA proteases and developing them to treat IgA nephropathy.

Carl Nathan

Carl F. Nathan is an American immunologist and microbiologist at Weill Cornell Medical College whose work defined how macrophages are activated to kill microbes, including tuberculosis research.

Cliona M. Rooney

Cliona M. Rooney is an immunologist and virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston known for developing EBV-specific T-cell therapy, now standard of care in Europe, for EBV-associated lymphomas.

Daved H. Fremont

Daved H. Fremont is a structural biologist and immunologist who is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the structural basis of Zika virus antibody protection.

David A. Thorley‐Lawson

David A. Thorley-Lawson was a British-born immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine who proposed the germinal center model of Epstein-Barr virus latency and died in 2017.

Donald E. Staunton

Donald E. Staunton is an American immunologist known for identifying the cell adhesion molecule ICAM-1 as the receptor for the major group of rhinoviruses, which cause most common colds.

Eric G. Pamer

Eric G. Pamer is an American immunologist and microbiome researcher, Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for work on Listeria immunity and colonization resistance.

Eugenio Centanni

Eugenio Centanni (1863–1942) was an Italian general pathologist and immunologist who, with Ezio Savonuzzi, identified the fowl plague virus at Ferrara in 1901, the fourth virus ever discovered.

Eui‐Cheol Shin

Eui-Cheol Shin (신의철) is a South Korean physician-scientist and immunologist, a professor at KAIST in Daejeon known for work on bystander activation of CD8+ T cells.

Faith Osier

Faith Osier is a Kenyan immunologist and pediatrician who studies which antibodies protect against malaria to design blood-stage vaccines, and chairs Immunology at Imperial College London.

Francis Gilman Blake

Francis Gilman Blake (1887–1952) was an American physician and immunologist, Sterling Professor of Medicine at Yale, known for demonstrating the viral cause of measles and directing early tests of penicillin.

Genhong Cheng

Genhong Cheng is an immunologist at UCLA, trained as a postdoctoral researcher with David Baltimore, known for defining how the TRAF3 protein controls antiviral interferon responses.

George Kassiotis

George Kassiotis, also published as Georgios Kassiotis, is an immunologist who leads Retroviral Immunology at The Francis Crick Institute and is Professor of Retrovirology at Imperial College London.

Hans Ernst August Buchner

Hans Ernst August Buchner (1850–1902) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist who discovered alexine, the heat-labile blood-serum principle now known as complement, and held the hygiene chair at Munich from 1894.

Hans Zinsser

Hans Zinsser (1878–1940) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist, the Charles Wilder Professor at Harvard Medical School and a leading authority on epidemic typhus, best known for Rats, Lice and History.

Ian A. Wilson

Ian A. Wilson is a Scottish-born structural biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, who uses X-ray crystallography to study immune recognition of influenza, HIV-1, and SARS-CoV-2.

Ian Frazer

Ian Frazer, born in Glasgow in 1953, is a British-Australian immunologist who, with Jian Zhou, developed the virus-like particle technology behind the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.

Ion Gresser

Ion Gresser (1928–2019) was an American virologist who spent his career in France, showing that interferon-α can cause disease in mice and acting on uninfected cells.

Irini Sereti

Irini Sereti is a Greek-born physician-scientist at NIAID, chief of its Laboratory of Immunoregulation, known for HIV immune restoration research and the 2023 NEJM reappraisal of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia.

Janelle S. Ayres

Janelle S. Ayres is an American molecular and systems physiologist at the Salk Institute who established disease tolerance, surviving infections by limiting damage rather than killing pathogens.

Jean Lindenmann

Jean Lindenmann (1924–2015) was a Swiss virologist who co-discovered and named interferon with Alick Isaacs in London in 1957, then studied the Mx gene at Zurich.

Jeffrey Laurence

Jeffrey Laurence is an American immunologist and hematologist, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of its Laboratory for AIDS Virus Research, with over 150 papers on AIDS.

Jonathan W. Yewdell

Jonathan W. Yewdell is an American physician-scientist who serves as chief of a cellular biology section at NIAID, known for the DRiPs hypothesis of antigen presentation.