John MacMicking PhD

Associate Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis

Biographical Info

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 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 and 2010 CCFA Senior Research Awardee.

International Activity

• German Research Foundation (DFG)

  Bonn, Germany (2013)
  International Reviewer, Life Sciences 2 Programme
• French National Research Agency (ANR)
  Paris, France (2012)
  International Reviewer, Programme Blanc International
• European Research Council (ERC)
  Brussels, Belgium (2011)
  International Reviewer, European Union 7th Research Framework Advanced Grants Programme (FP7)
• Health Research Board of Ireland (HRB)
  Dublin, Ireland (2011)
  International Reviewer, Translational Medicine Fellowships Programme
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
  London, United Kingdom (2009)
  International Reviewer, Strategic Grants Programme

Education & Training

BS

Australian National Univ (1990)

Ph.D.

Cornell University (1997)

Revson Biomedical Fellow

The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997 - 1998)

LSRF Fellow

The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1998 - 2000)

Research Associate

The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Infection Biology (2001 - 2003)

Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Infection Biology (2004 - 2007)

Honors & Recognition

• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) Senior Investigator Award
  (2010)
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award
  (2008)
• Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Investigator Award
  (2006)
• Searle-Chicago Community Trust Scholar
  (2005)
• Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Fellow
  (2004)
• HHMI Life Science Research Foundation (LSRF) Fellow
  The Rockefeller University (1998)
• Charles H. Revson Fellow in Biomedical Research
  The Rockefeller University (1997)
• Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award
  Sloan Kettering Institute-Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY (1997)

Professional Service

• Standing Member, Immunity & Host Defense Study Section, NIH (7/1/2013 - 6/30/2018)
• Member, Functional Biology Committee NIDDK, NIH (3/22/2012)