- Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov joined the Yale faculty in 1999 and is currently a Sterling Professor at Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, a position he has held since 2000. His early studies led to the identification of innate immune sensing pathways and established the principle of innate control of adaptive immunity — foundational contributions to the field of immunology. His laboratory’s current research focuses on inflammation biology, allergy, tissue biology, disease mechanisms, and evolutionary medicine.
Dr. Medzhitov has received numerous prestigious honors, including the Emil von Behring Award, the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, the William B. Coley Award, the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award, the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, the Vilcek Prize in Life Sciences, the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, the Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung Prize, the Dickson Prize, and the AAI Mentoring Award.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of EMBO.
