Miriam Merad


Miram Merad is an Algerian professor in Cancer immunology and the Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, NY. She is the corecipient of the 2018 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Career

Miriam Merad started her medical school at the University of Algiers in 1985 and completed her residency in Paris Diderot University. She then moved to Stanford University to perform a phD in the laboratory of Edgar Engleman. She was first recruited to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2004 and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure in 2007 and to Full Professor in 2010. She obtained an Endowed Chair in Cancer Immunology in 2014.

Research

Miram Merad’s early studies were among the first to identify the mechanisms that control the development and functional identity of tissue resident dendritic cells and macrophages. Current research in her lab remains focused on the role dendritic cells and macrophages play within the tumor microenvironment and on how tumors prevent the normal anti-tumor functions of these cells.

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