Mark M. Davis, Ph.D.

Mark M. Davis

 Brief Bio

Mark M. Davis is the Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Director of the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Davis is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He was president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2022 to 2023 and served as an AAI Council member from 2017 to 2022.

 AAI Service History

Joined: 1988
President: 2022–2023
Vice President: 2021–2022
Past President: 2023–2024
Councilor: 2017–2021

The Journal of Immunology
Associate Editor: 1989–1992
Committees
Nominating Committee: 1996–1997; 1998–1999; 2003–2004, chair

Other Service
Course Lecturer, AAI Advanced Course in Immunology: 1995, 2000–2001, 2004–2006

 President's Address


"My Immunology Adventures," Delivered May 11, 2023

 President's Message

​"AAI President’s Message," July 2021

AAI Newsletter (October 2022) 4–6.

 Awards and Honors

  • Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and Immunology, American Society for Microbiology, 1986
  • Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1989
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 1989
  • Behring-Heidelberger Prize, AAI, 1997
  • Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology, 1998
  • William B. Coley Award, Cancer Research Institute, 2000
  • Pius XI Award, Pontificial Academy of Sciences, 2000
  • Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Paul Ehrlich Institute, 2004
  • Member, National Academy of Medicine (U.S.), 2004
  • Member, Royal Society (U.K.), 2016

 Institutional/Biographical Links

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