Prof. Christine Biron Brown University, USA

Christine Biron is the Esther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Professor of Medical Science and Chairperson, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. Research in her laboratory is directed at understanding the cellular and cytokine mechanisms... read moreregulating immune defenses. She is particularly interested in the responses to acute viral infections and links between innate and adaptive immunity. Professor Biron acknowledges and thanks current and previous members of her laboratory for their contributions to this work, including Takuya Miyagi, Lene Malmgaard, Jordan Orange, Ken Nguyen, Helen Su, M. Pilar Gill, and Seung-Hwan Lee.