Dr. Sen is Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Lerner Research Institute, at the Cleveland Clinic. He is also professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine in Cleveland and serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Sen obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Canada, in 1974. Dr. Sen was awarded a Medical Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for the period of 1974-77, which was spent at the lab of Dr. Peter Lenyel at the Yale University. He is the author of over 140 publications, reviews and book chapters, and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. Dr. Sen also serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Biological Chemistry, Virology and Journal of Virology.
Dr. Levy is a faculty member at the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at New York University School of Medicine where he is a Professor of Pathology and holds the Dr. Louis A. Schneider Endowed Chair in Molecular Pathology. He is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the Rockefeller University. Dr. Levy serves as Associate Director of the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Training Program, Co-director of the Training Program on Virus-Host Interactions, Graduate Advisor of the Molecular Oncology and Immunology Training Program, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Research Computing Resource. Dr. Levy obtained his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the California Institute of Technology, Pasedena, CA, in 1995 and was awarded a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship for the period of 1984-87, which was spent at the laboratory of Dr.James Darnell at the Rockefeller University.Dr. Levy is the author of over 100 research publications, review and book chapters.
Announcing the 2020 Milstein Young Investigator Awardees
Aaron M Ring
Assistant Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, United States
Elia Tait Wojno
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology, University of Washington
Seattle, USA
Zhenyu Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, USA
Young Investigators to Watch for 2019
Here are some of the emerging scientists in the field of interferon and cytokine research:
Assistant Professor in Immunology
Dept. Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine,
JF Coordinator for BSc in Human Health and Disease, TBSI, Head of Immunobiology Research Group, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Rajsbaum performed his PhD in the laboratory of Anne O’Garra at the MRC-NIMR, London in 2009, and completed his postdoctoral training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, with Dr Adolfo Garcia-Sastre.
Dr. Sonnenberg completed his doctoral research training at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in 2011, focusing on mucosal immunology.