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Eric Gerd Pamer | |
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| Born | 1955 |
| Alma mater | Case Western Reserve University (BA) & Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (MD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microbiota, Human Microbiome, Immunology, Infectious Diseases |
| Academic advisors | Georgia Lesh, Abdel Mahmoud, Charles Davis, Magdalene So, Michael Bevan |
| Website | https://pamerlab.uchicago.edu/ |
Eric Gerd Pamer is an American microbiologist. He currently serves as Donald F. Steiner Professor in the departments of Medicine, Microbiology, and Pathology at the University of Chicago. He researches the impact of the microbiome and health and disease, including antibiotic resistant pathogens. Pamer is the director of the Duchossois Family Institute, which investigates the microbiome to improve human health.
Early life and education[edit]
Eric was born in Los Angeles, California; born of an Austrian father and Russian mother. He began first grade in Luxembourg, where classes were in German, studied French, and English was spoken at home. Growing up, Eric liked nature and ecology, along with collecting and cataloguing, Eric became very interested in biology.[1]
Eric received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Case Western Reserve University, where he initially studied hydra in Georgia Lesh's lab and worked summers at the Cleveland Clinic. While attending medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he studied immune defense against schistosomiasis in Abdel Mahmoud's lab and spent time working in a Kenyan hospital. During fellowship at University of California at San Diego, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Charles Davis’ lab, where he became interested in infectious disease and immunology while studying African sleeping sickness. He did cysteine protease research in Magdalene So's lab at Scripps Research Institute, followed by work in Listeria immunity in Michael Bevan’s lab at The University of Washington in Seattle.[1]
Career[edit]
In 1992, Pamer began an assistant professorship at Yale University, where he establish a laboratory focusing on the immunobiology of infectious disease.[1] In 2000, he moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York where he was the Chief of Infectious Diseases, Head of the Division of Subspecialty Medicine, and Director of the Center for Microbes, Inflammation and Cancer, which focused on the role of the microbiome in the treatment of cancer.[1] In 2019, Dr. Pamer moved to the University of Chicago to become the Director of the Duchossois Family Institute.[2][3]
Awards and honors[edit]
Public engagement and service[edit]
Eric serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[4]
External links[edit]
- The Pamer Lab at The University of Chicago
- The Duchossois Family Institute at The University of Chicago
- Eric Pamer's Research Network
- Eric Pamer's Google Scholar
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Cohen, Helene L; Pamer, Eric G. "Oral history interview with Eric G. Pamer". Science History Institute. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Physician-scientist Eric Pamer to lead Duchossois Family Institute". 29 April 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "DFI Leadership". Retrieved 11 March 2024.
- ^ "Scientific Advisory Committee". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
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