Scientific Advisory Board

Russell Vance, PhD

Russell Vance obtained his PhD in 2000 under the mentorship of David Raulet at the University of California, Berkeley. He conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of John Mekalanos and Bill Dietrich at Harvard Medical School. He was appointed Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in 2006 and is currently a Professor and HHMI Investigator. (credits: vancelab.berkeley.edu)

The Vance Lab is interested in all aspects of the complex interrelationship between pathogens and their hosts. In particular, they apply the modern tools of biology and genetics to answer a variety of questions at a molecular level: how is the presence of pathogenic bacteria sensed by hosts? Are pathogenic bacteria distinguished from harmless bacteria, and if so, how? What innate immune mechanisms protect cells from pathogens? How do cells coordinate defenses that are appropriate for various categories of pathogens? What mechanisms have pathogens evolved to evade host defenses? (credits: vcresearch.berkeley.edu)

Since 2013, Dr. Vance has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2020, he was awarded the William B. Coley Award for Basic and Cancer Immunology by the Cancer Research Institute. (credits: unige.ch)

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