Miriam Merad

Dr. Merad is the Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the Director of the Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center (HIMC), which she founded. She is an internationally acclaimed physician-scientist and a leader in the fields of dendritic cell and macrophage biology, focusing on their contributions to human diseases. Dr. Merad has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and reviews in high profile journals and belongs to several NIH consortia. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the recipient of the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology. She is President-elect of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). In 2020, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her contributions to the field of immunology.