Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, MS
Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
International Academy of Endodontics Annual Meeting
Long Essay Program
Friday, March 3, 2023
Oral Infectious Diseases
Affiliations:
School of Medicine
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Bio:
Arturo Casadevall is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
He received his M.S., Ph.D. and M.D. from New York University.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he served as director of the Center for Immunological Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
His team is currently engaged in understanding how hosts defend against the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Dr. Casadevall’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the American Society for Microbiology Founders Distinguished Service Award, the National Institutes of Health Merit Award and the Rhoda Benham Award from Medical Mycology Society of America.