Avery August, PhD

Avery August is Deputy Provost and Professor of Immunology in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. He received a BS in Medical Technology from California State University at Los Angeles, a PhD in Immunology from Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University as a National Science Foundation Minority Post-Doctoral Fellow. After a brief stint in industry at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute as a Scientist in Drug Discovery, he moved to The Pennsylvania State University, where he was Distinguished Professor, prior to moving to Cornell as Chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His research focuses on understanding the immunological basis for the balance of inflammation and pathology.