Advisor

Dr. Avery August

Dr. Avery August is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is currently HHMI Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. His previous position was as Distinguished Professor of Immunology in the Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, and Director of the Center for Molecular Immunology & Infectious Disease, at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park, where he started as an Assistant Professor in 1999. He received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology from the California State University at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. degree in Immunology from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University with the late Hidesaburo Hanafusa. His research interests include regulation of immune response by intracellular signaling events, CD8+ T cell memory development, and production of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells during lung inflammation or infection.