S. Mark Tompkins
Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Disease, University of Georgia
S. Mark Tompkins, Ph.D. is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Virology and Immunology and Director of the Center for Vaccines and Immunology at the University of Georgia. He is also the Director and Principal Investigator of the Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Research, a NIAID Center of Excellence in Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR) at the UGA.
He received his doctorate in Immunology from Emory University. He then studied immune mechanisms of onset of autoimmune disease as a National Multiple Sclerosis Society Postdoctoral Fellow before joining the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA where he studied immunity elicited by influenza vaccination. He joined the University of Georgia in 2005 and rose through the ranks to Professor in 2016. Mark was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholar Award in 2012 and worked at the CSIRO ACDP in Geelong, Australia. Dr. Tompkins's research and training programs focus on understanding the host response to emerging and re-emerging respiratory pathogens, pathogen-pathogen interactions, and vaccine-elicited immunity.
