Robert Dantzer

Robert is a Professor in the Department of Symptom Research in the Division of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He has conducted research for many years on the interactions between the immune system and the brain. His current research aims at understanding the role of inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathophysiology of depression and fatigue. He has authored more than 550 original research papers, reviews and book chapters on stress, anxiety, neuropeptides, brain-immune interactions, and inflammation-associated depression. He is also the author of several books on stress, emotions, psychosomatics, neurobiology of cytokines, and immunopsychiatry.