Dr. John Mckinney

Biography

Professor John McKinney received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics in 1994 from Rockefeller University, where he studied cell cycle regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the supervision of Fred Cross. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1995 to 1998, focusing on the mechanisms that allow Mycobacterium tuberculosis to persist in hosts. In 1999, he returned to Rockefeller University to establish his own laboratory, where he held the positions of Assistant Professor from 1999 to 2004 and Associate Professor from 2004 to 2007. In July 2007, McKinney relocated his lab to the Global Health Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he is currently a Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology Microsystems. His research primarily addresses the mechanistic basis for bacterial persistence in the context of host immunity and antimicrobial therapies, specifically using Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a model system.

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