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Martin F. Kagnoff, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Cornell Medical School, Boston University and the Salk Institute, and has been on the faculty of the University of California since 1972. At UCSD he is also the Director of the William K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac Disease. Dr. Kagnoff has made important fundamental contributions to understanding the function of the intestinal mucosal immune system, the pathogenesis of celiac disease and molecular and physiologic mechanisms that underlie intestinal mucosal innate and acquired immune responses to microbial pathogens. He has published over 200 scientific papers. He directs a NIH sponsored Program in Mucosal Immunology and Intestinal Host-Environment Interactions and a NIH sponsored multi-disciplinary institutional pre and postdoctoral research training program. Dr. Kagnoff is a past Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology and a past Editor in Chief and Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Honors include a Fiterman Senior Research Award from the American Gastroenterological Association and a Rothschild Mayent Award from the Institut, Curie, Paris. He has been the organizer and conference director for several Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and has served as Vice Chair and Chair for the Immunology, Microbiology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section for the Council of the American Gastroenterological Association. | 