Speaker

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Oncology, School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Pearce obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she studied the regulation of T-cell responses during infection. During her postdoctoral studies there, she began her studies into how modulating cell metabolism improved immune responses to infection and cancer. She started her independent career in 2009, holding faculty positions at the Trudeau Institute in NY, and then at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In 2015, she moved her research group to Europe to become a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany. In 2018 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her work on the role of metabolism in controlling immune responses, and the AAI-BD Investigator Award in 2020, for her early-career contributions to this field. In 2021 Dr. Pearce moved back to the US and joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor. Research in her laboratory continues to focus on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control immune responses, with a particular emphasis on how metabolism governs this process. She hopes that their work will inform new ways to target immune cell longevity, differentiation, and function through metabolism, with a long-term goal of mitigating human disease..

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