Arturo Casadevall
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| Born | Arturo Casadevall 1957 Sancti Spíritus, Cuba |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Microbiology Immunology Infectious Diseases |
| Alma mater |
Queens College, City University of New York (B.A.) New York University(M.S., Ph.D., M.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Loren A. Day |
| Known for |
Fungal and bacterial pathogenesis Setosphaeria rostrata Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacillus anthracis mBio |
| Notable awards |
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (2015) NIH Merit Award (2007) AAAS Fellow (2006) |
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Arturo Casadevall is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function.
Arturo Casadevall was born in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba in 1957. He moved to Elmhurst, Queens, New York City in 1968 and became a U.S. citizen in 1976. Casadevall received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Queens College, City University of New York in 1979, and his M.S. and Ph.D in Biochemistry from New York University in 1983 and 1984. He then received his M.D. from New York University in 1985. Casadevall completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Center, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Under the guidance of Matthew D. Scharff, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1989-1991.
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