Jenny Ting

Dr. Jenny Ting received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, and postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California and Duke University. She joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor and has been there since that time. Currently, she is a William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Immunology Program Leader. She is also the Director of the UNC Center for Translational Immunology and the co-Director of the Institute of Inflammatory Diseases.

From 2008 to 2014, she served as the co-Director of the Southeast Regional Center for Excellence in Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB). She is currently the Program Director of an NIAID-funded Center for Translational Research, an NIAID-funded Center for Immune-mediated Viral Control, and a National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) funded Collaborative Multiple Sclerosis Center and an NIH training grant. She has trained more than 90 postdoctoral fellows and students who have gone on to successful scientific careers ranging from deanship, chairmanship, professors, and industrial leaders.