Vijay Kumar
Dr. Vijay Kumar has more than 14 years of academic research experience in the field of infection, immunity, and inflammation. He is the recipient of the prestigious Indian Council of Medical Research junior and senior research fellowships. He received the Piero Periti Review Article Award from the Journal of Chemotherapy in 2008 for his article “Innate immunity in sepsis pathogenesis and its modulation: new immunomodulatory targets revealed.” Currently, he leads the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy in the Department of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia, USA. He has more than eighty publications to his credit, including editorials, book chapters, and journal articles. He has also edited eight books. He is an associate editor for Frontiers in Immunology and an editorial board member and peer reviewer for several other immunology journals.