Special Volunteer
Former Chief, Molecular Development of the Immune System Section
Former Co-Director, NIAID Clinical Genomics Program
Education:
M.D., Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Biography
Michael Lenardo received a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences from Johns Hopkins University and obtained his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Washington University in St. Louis. He performed clinical work in internal medicine and research at the University of Iowa. He received postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the mentorship of Nobel laureates David Baltimore and Philip Sharp. He established an independent research unit at NIAID in 1989 and became a Senior Investigator and Section Chief in 1994. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He has founded or co-founded several joint research programs including the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Biomedical Research Scholars, the NIH-University of Pennsylvania Immunology Program, the NIH-Marshall Scholars, the NIH-Rhodes Scholars, the National M.D./Ph.D. partnership program, and the NIH-Institut Pasteur Infectious Disease and Immunology Program.
Awards
2006: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) conferred by Queen Elizabeth II
2009: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2014: Irish Society of Immunology Award
2019: Member, National Academy of Sciences
2019: Member, National Academy of Medicine
2019: NIH Distinguished Investigator (top 2-3% section chiefs at NIH)
2020: American Association of Immunologists Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research
2020: Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences of Great Britain