Innate and Intrinsic Host Enzymes Shaping RNA Virus Infection
Michaela Gack, PhD
Scientific Director
Arthur and Marylin Levitt Endowed Chair
Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center
Dr. Gack is the Arthur and Marylin Levitt Endowed Chair and Scientific Director of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center. She did her PhD training in virology at Harvard Medical School as part of a collaborative graduate program between Harvard and the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Before joining Cleveland Clinic in 2020, she held faculty positions at Harvard University and The University of Chicago.
For her academic achievements in the fields of virology and innate immunity, Dr. Gack received several awards including the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, the Robert Koch Postdoctoral Prize, the Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award from the American Society for Virology, and the Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award of the American Society for Microbiology. She has also been selected twice on Germany’s list of “Top 40 under 40” scientists. In 2017, she was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, and in 2021 she received an NIH Director’s PIONEER Award. Dr. Gack has continuously served on National Institutes of Health study sections and also as an editor for a number of journals including Journal of Virology and PLOS Pathogens. She is currently serving as an editor for Human Molecular Genetics and is also a member of the editorial board of Science Signaling.
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