Maziar Divangahi | Professor of Medicine
McGill University

Dr. Divangahi is an internationally renowned pulmonary immunologist whose overarching research focus is to investigate the regulatory mechanisms involved in innate and adaptive immunity to pulmonary pandemic infectious diseases and to broadly understand critical differences between protective and deleterious immune responses. His recent discoveries identifying the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying "innate memory" (trained immunity) and utilizing hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to generate trained immunity have transformed our understanding of the field and layed the groundwork for developing novel host-directed immunotherapies and vaccines.