Brendan P. Cormack PhD

Dr. Brendan Cormack is a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on fungal pathogenesis. Dr. Cormack serves as course director of infectious disease at the School of Medicine. His team is currently studying the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata to understand how it has evolved to colonize and persist in the mammalian host.

Dr. Cormack received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Dr. Cormack joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1998. He is a reviewer of scientific journals, including Molecular Microbiology and Infection and Immunity. His work has been recognized with a Searle Scholarship Award and a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award.