Dr. David Artis, Ph.D., holds the position of the Michael Kors Professor of Immunology in the Department of Medicine and is also a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University in New York, NY. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Director of the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation.

He completed his doctoral research on the regulation of immunity and inflammation in the intestine at the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Artis then received the Wellcome Trust Prize Traveling Fellowship for his post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued researching the regulation of immune responses at barrier surfaces. In 2005, he joined the faculty at University of Pennsylvania and became a Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine.

In 2014, Dr. Artis was recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) at Cornell University in New York City, where he assumed the positions of the inaugural Michael Kors Professor in Immunology and the Director of the Jill Roberts Institute for IBD Research. Subsequently, he took on the role of the inaugural Director of the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation, launching the Friedman Center at WCM.

Dr. Artis’ research focuses on dissecting the pathways that regulate innate and adaptive immune cell function, as well as host-microbiota interactions at barrier surfaces in the context of health and disease. Using multidisciplinary approaches, including single nucleus sequencing, untargeted metabolomics, CRISPR targeting of the microbiota, and chemo- and optogenetic tools to manipulate the nervous system, Dr. Artis’ team dissects the cellular and molecular pathways that control the gut-brain axis. A major aspect of his research is the clinical translation of findings in pre-clinical models into patient-based studies of immune-mediated diseases.

Dr. Artis has published over 180 peer-reviewed primary and review papers with an H-index of 94 and more than 44,000 citations. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2004 and also receives support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, and the Paul G. Allen Foundation. Dr. Artis has received Investigator Awards from the American Association of Immunology, the International Cytokine Society, and Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, including the Colyton Prize, the William E. Paul Award for Outstanding Research, the Stanley Cohen Prize, and the AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award.