Eric Sebzda

Eric Sebzda, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, joining in 2018. His research focuses on manipulating adaptive immune responses to improve disease outcomes, spanning cancer, autoimmunity, and autoinflammatory disorders. He teaches core immunology courses and utilizes mouse models to identify therapeutic targets in human immune pathologies.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto (1998)

Research Interests:

• Adaptive immune system regulation
• Cancer immunotherapy
• Autoimmune disease mechanisms
• Autoinflammatory disease modeling
• Pre-clinical therapeutic development

Teaching:

• Fundamentals of Immunology (IM7010)
• Biomedical Immunology (IBS7090)
• Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy (CB7410)