Jenny Pan-Yun Ting

Jenny Pan-Yun Ting is William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also Director of the Center for Translational Immunology and Co-Director of the Inflammatory Diseases Institute. She is known for her contributions to immunology, molecular biology, genomics, and microbiology, and especially for her observations regarding the control of immunity. Ting delineated the common transcriptional promoter and enhancer of class II Major Histocompatibility (MHC-II) genes. Her research ultimately showed that NLRs control innate and adaptive immunity, and regulate crucial functions ranging from cytokine production, apoptosis, programmed necrosis, autophagy, inflammation and tumor suppression. Her work highlights the impact of NLR in a wide-range of diseases including microbial pathogenesis, inflammatory disorders, cancer, metabolic disease and obesity.

Ting has authored over 300 publications has served on several councils at the National Institutes of Health, as a member of the Burroughs Welcome Fund Board of Directors, and as the President of the American Association of Immunologists.