Dr. E. John Wherry is the Barbara and Richard Schiffrin President’s distinguished professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Penn Institute for Immunology. He received his Ph.D. at Thomas Jefferson University in 2000, completing his postdoctoral research at Emory University in 2004. In 2005, Dr. Wherry was appointed assistant professor in the immunology program at The Wistar Institute before joining the Perelman School of Medicine in 2010. His pioneering research has focused on defining the cellular and molecular nature of immune exhaustion—the failure of normal immune system function—in chronic infection and cancer. He has identified novel combinations of immune treatments that may provide future therapeutics for cancer and infections. Other work from his laboratory examines the epigenetics of immune cells, systems immunology approaches, vaccine responses, and respiratory infections. Dr. Wherry has received numerous honors for his consistent and significant contributions to infectious disease and cancer research. He has over 160 publications in top international journals and has been cited over 29,000 times.
E. John
Wherry, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA