Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D.

Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D. holds a number of roles at Rockefeller University, including as the Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Senior Physician. He obtained his Ph.D. degree for work on dendritic cells with Ralph Steinman at Rockefeller. He earned an M.D. degree from New York University Medical School. Dr. Nussenzweig trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. His postdoctoral research was done with Philip Leder at Harvard Medical School on immunoglobulin genes and B cell development.