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Thomas L. Cherpes

Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University

Thomas L. Cherpes, DVM, MD, Assistant Professor, received a DVM from the University of Wisconsin and a MD from Wake Forest University. Conducts basic, translational, and clinical research studies that explore host defense against cancer and microbial pathogens, with a focus on:

1. Effects of exogenous sex steroids on basic mechanisms of anti-virus host defense

2. Importance of Type 2 immunity as host defense against Chlamydia trachomatis

3. Development of cellular immunotherapies for infectious disease and cancer

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University

Education

  •  
    Wake Forest University, M.D.
  •  
    University of Wisconsin Madison, D.V.M.