Ruslan Medzhitov

Immunobiologist Ruslan Medzhitov is the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His research interests include biology of inflammation, mechanisms of disease, innate immunity, infection biology, allergy, cell signaling and gene regulation. Medzhitov has made pioneering contributions to the understanding of innate immunity, which provides immediate defense against infection. His examination of how different divisions of the human immune system work -- and fail to work -- shed light on human disease and vaccine efficacy.

His awards include William B. Coley Award "For Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology", Cancer Research Institute, 2003; Emil von Behring Award, 2004; AAI –BD Biosciences Investigator Award, 2006; Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, 2007; Howard Taylor Ricketts Award, The University of Chicago, 2008; Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, Brandeis University, 2010; The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, 2011; Vilcek Foundation Prize, New York, 2013; Lurie Prize, Chicago, 2013; Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung Prize, Germany, 2013; Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching prize, 2015, and the Dickson Prize in Medicine, 2019.