Jason G. Cyster, PhD

Jason Cyster is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Maryland. Jason is an internationally recognized immunologist and has led the way in defining how cells emigrate from lymphoid organs, a process essential for immune function. Jason received a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Microbiology from the University of Western Australia and earned his PhD from the University of Oxford at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. He later became a post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford University Medical Center.