Peter Cresswell, Ph.D.

Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent most of his career unraveling some of the mysteries of the human immune system, has been named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology. Cresswell’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, in which fragments of proteins from viruses, bacteria, and other disease-causing organisms bind to the major histocompatibility complex molecules on human cells during an infection.