Francis Moore

Biography

Dr. Moore holds the Francis D. Moore Chair of Surgery at Harvard. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, with internship and residency in Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, respectively. During surgery training, he also completed two years of research training in Immunology with Drs. K. Frank Austen and Douglas Fearon, concentrating on the basic biology of the complement system. Since joining the attending staff in surgery at Brigham and Women's in 1984, he has pursued a vigorous investigational program, as well as developing a busy clinical enterprise of some 20 general surgeons on- and off-site. He is in his 17th year as P.I. of a P50 Trauma Center grant, funded by NIGMS. His long-term specific research interest has been the autologous inflammatory amplification of injury and the use of that research knowledge to lessen the impact of injury on human patients. 

Research Interest

His long-term specific research interest has been the autologous inflammatory amplification of injury and the use of that research knowledge to lessen the impact of injury on human patients