Industry Collaboration Group member since 2012
Professor of Medicine (emeritus)
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
USA
Michael M Lederman, MD, is Professor of Medicine (emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Cleveland Medical Center, where he is also Professor of Pathology, Microbiology/Molecular Biology and Biomedical Ethics. He received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland and the VA Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident in Medicine. He completed fellowship training in infectious diseases, received postdoctoral training in cellular immunology in the laboratory of Jerrold Ellner, and joined the faculty at CWRU in 1980.
Michael has been engaged in HIV and AIDS research since 1982. He established the Special Immunology Unit (HIV clinic) at CWRU in 1985 and the NIH-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at CWRU in 1987. He is author of more than 400 peer-reviewed research publications. He has been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and is a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Academy of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is Editor-in-Chief of Pathogens and Immunity.