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Marcella Sarzotti-Kelsoe, PhD is a Duke Professor in Integrative Immunobiology, an Associate Professor in Surgery, a faculty member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, and the Director of the Quality Assurance for Duke Vaccine Immunogenicity Programs

Saskia Hemmers, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Integrative Immunobiology and a member of our EDI Committee. She is also a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.

Mari Shinohara, PhD, started her laboratory at Duke University Department of Immunology in 2009.

Georgia Tomaras, PhD, started her laboratory at Duke University in 2001. She is a Professor in Integrative Immunobiology, a Professor in Surgery, Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences, and a Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Kizzmekia Shanta Corbett-Helaire, an American viral immunologist, is the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She was featured in Time magazine's "Time100 Next" list as an Innovator in February 2021, with a profile penned by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In collaboration with the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Department of Integrated Immunobiology hosted a two-hour luncheon honoring Black History Month.

Richard A. Goldsby, Phd, has made significant contributions to both the field of immunology and broader societal discourse. He is the Thomas B. Walton, Jr. Memorial Professor of Biology Emeritus at Amherst College, Massachusetts.

Julian H. Lewis accomplished many significant “firsts” in his lifetime and is known to be one of the earliest African Americans in history to hold both an MD and a PhD.

In February, David Tobin, co-primary faculty member with IIB and MGM was one of 65 new American Academy of Microbiology fellows elected to the Class of 2024.

William Hinton was born in 1883 to parents who had grown up enslaved in North Carolina. Hinton attended the University of Kansas and then Harvard. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 1912, but as an African American, was barred from practicing surgery in Boston.