Conference Speakers
Clifford Lowell MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Department of Laboratory Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Clifford Lowell, MD-PhD, is currently a Distinguished Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He also serves as the Department Chair for Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Lowell received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, followed by his MD-PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, then moved to UCSF for fellowship training and post-doctor research in the laboratory of Dr. Harold Varmus. Dr. Lowell joined the faculty in Laboratory Medicine in 1995, becoming a full Professor in 2007 and Department Chair in 2015.
Dr. Lowell’s research interests are focused on innate immunity. He has studied the mechanisms by which innate immune cells respond to inflammatory signals and pathogen molecules. In turn, his group has investigated how innate immune cell activation contributes to tissue injury in infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.