Sarkis Mazmanian, Ph.D.

About

Sarkis K. Mazmanian is the Luis & Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology in the Division of Biology & Biological Engineering at Caltech and an Investigator of the Heritage Medical Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at UCLA, held a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, and was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School before joining Caltech in 2006. His lab studies beneficial gut microbiome molecules as potential therapies for immunologic and neurologic disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease, autism, and Parkinson's disease.