Edward Mocarski

Professor Mocarski serves as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Microbiology & Immunology in the Emory Vaccine Center of Emory University and is also Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University. He also served as a Distinguished Fellow at MedImmune, a division of AstraZeneca, involved in the company’s vaccine pipeline research. Dr. Mocarski’s research has focused on the biology, pathogenesis and latency of cytomegalovirus (CMV), an opportunistic herpesvirus; in particular, on integrating biochemical, molecular, cellular and intact animal approaches to investigate the biological properties of this virus and its close relatives. He has made key contributions to the identification of replication functions, latent reservoir in myelomonocytic progenitors, immunomodulatory functions, and cellular response to viral infection. His research has also opened dramatic new understanding of cell death pathways in host defence where he has discovered that mammalian cell death machinery can be dysregulated to cause developmental failures and trigger inflammatory disease. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles.