Christopher F. Basler PhD

Christopher F. Basler is the director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis. Basler obtained his Ph.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1995. He became a professor of microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2014. His major research interests are immune evasion and replication mechanisms of filoviruses and other emerging RNA viruses. Notable achievements include the identification and characterization of the Ebola virus and Marburg virus interferon antagonist proteins.