Michel Nussenzweig

Michel Nussenzweig received his Ph.D. in 1981 from Rockefeller University and his M.D. from NYU in 1982 through the MSTP. He continued his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine and, as a clinical fellow, in Infectious Diseases. In 1986, he began his postdoctoral research in genetics at Harvard Medical School until he moved to The Rockefeller University in 1990. Dr. Nussenzweig is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Society of Clinical Investigators. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator as well as the Sherman Fairchild Professor and Senior Physician in the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at The Rockefeller University. His considerable contributions to the field of immunology include insights into how autoimmune diseases progress and the development of methods that may lead to dendritic-cell vaccines. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.