John Macmicking PhD

Dr. MacMicking began research as an undergraduate B.Sc Honours Fellow (1st Class) within the Department of Immunology & Cell Biology formerly headed by 1996 Nobel Laureate, Peter Doherty, at the the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra.

He then pursued Ph. D studies with Carl Nathan in the combined Immunology program at Sloan-Kettering Institute-Cornell University Medical College in New York City before post-doctoral work as an HHMI Life Science Research Foundation Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University with John McKinney. Here he identified and began characterizing members of an IFN-inducible GTPase superfamily important for cell-autonomous immunity to infection. Since joining Yale in 2004 his work in this area has been recognized through several awards, being named a 2004 Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation Fellow, 2005 Searle Scholar, 2006 Cancer Research Institute Investigator, 2008 Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, 2010 CCFA Senior Research Awardee, 2014 AAF Scholar and 2014 Kenneth Rainin Foundation Innovator.