RUSTOM ANTIA, PHD
PROFESSOR, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Affiliate Faculty, Emory Vaccine Center
PROFESSOR, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Affiliate Faculty, Emory Vaccine Center
EAVE FACULTY, PROFESSOR, RUSTOM ANTIA, PHD
Dr. Rustom Anita is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University as well as Affiliate Faculty with the Emory Vaccine Center. He completed his master’s degree in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay (1983) and his PhD in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Massachusetts (1990). He has been modeling the dynamics of immune responses and host-pathogen interactions since his post-doctoral fellowship at Imperial College in 1991. He approaches problems in immunology and epidemiology from an ecological and evolutionary viewpoint.
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Professor, Department of Biology, Emory University 2007-present
AREAS OF INTERST
- A quantitative understanding of the dynamics of infections and immunity
- The generation and maintenance of immunological memory
- Development of vaccines to influenza and other respiratory pathogens
- Cross-scale modeling integrating within- and between host dynamics (i.e., immunological and epidemiological processes).
- The emergence of novel pathogens.
- Pathogens: influenza, malaria, HIV, COVID-19
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