David Artis PhD, BSc

David Artis is an Associate Professor of Microbiology, as well as Director of the Penn Gnotobiotic Mouse Facility, Chair of Admissions for the Immunology Graduate Group and a member of the Executive Committees of the Institute for Immunology and the Immunology Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his doctoral research training at the University of Manchester, UK, focusing on regulation of immunity and inflammation in the intestine.

After receiving a Wellcome Trust Prize Traveling Fellowship, he undertook his fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued his research training in examining the regulation of immune responses at barrier surfaces. His current research program also encompasses a significant effort to translate research findings in pre-clinical models into patient-based studies of immune-mediated diseases. Dr. Artis is funded by NIH, CCFA and BWF and has published 43 primary papers and 18 reviews in high-profile journals including Nature, Science , Nature Medicine , Nature Immunology and Journal of Experimental Medicine . He has been the recipient of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America Young Investigator Award, the Lady Barbara Colyton Prize for Autoimmune Research, the Stanley Cohen Prize, the AAI Junior Faculty Award, the International Cytokine Society Junior Faculty Award and the AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award.