John Boothroyd
PROFESSOR
Microbiology & Immunology
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
John Boothroyd, Ph.D., is the Burt and Marion Avery Professor of Immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.Dr. Boothroyd received his undergraduate degree in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and his PhD in Molecular Biology from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He worked as a scientist in the Immunochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at Wellcome Research Laboratories, UK, before joining the Stanford faculty in 1982 as a member of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He was Department Chair from 1999-2002 and served as Senior Associate Dean for Research
Research Interest
organisms are major pathogens of humans and anaimals and, second, they have proven to be a source of some remarkable phenomena that have challenged much of the dogma thought to be universal in eukaryotic biology.
