John D. MacMicking, Ph.D.

John D. MacMicking, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, has been selected as a 2005 Searle Scholar as part of a program that supports the independent research of young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry. In 2004 MacMicking also received the Mallinckrodt Foundation Program Scholar Award, given annually to young scientists starting their careers. He studies host innate immunity, with an emphasis on the role played by interferon pathways against intracellular infections like tuberculosis.