Christine Anne Biron PhD

Christine A. Biron, Brintzenhoff Professor and former Chairperson in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, focuses her research on innate immunity to viruses, particularly at the level of natural killer cells, cytokines, and signal transducers and activators of transcription. She trained at UMASS, UNC, and Scripps Research Foundation, and was a Visiting Scientist at the Karolinska Institute as well as a Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin. A past Scholar of the Leukemia Society of American, she has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology, on the Editorial Board for Virology, on NIH Study Sections, on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NCI, and on the US-Japan Immunology Board for NIAID. She is currently a Journal of Experimental Medicine Advisory Editor, Associate Editor for Immunity, on the External Scientific Advisory Board for the Trudeau Institute, and on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIAID. She is a member of the American Association of Immunologists and American Society for Virology, and an elected Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.