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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology
University of Pittsburgh, UPMC
Tim Hand is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology and the Director of the Gnotobiotic Animal core facility at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hand’s laboratory is within the R. K. Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Tim grew up in Toronto, where he received an B.Sc. from the University of Toronto. He next moved to Yale University where he received a PhD for studies he performed under the mentorship of Susan Kaech on the requirements for the long-term survival of memory T cells. Tim followed his PhD studies with a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health with Yasmine Belkaid, where he shifted his interest to research on the interaction between intestinal resident lymphocytes and the microbiota.
Currently, Tim directs the Immunity to Bacterial Colonization Lab. Dr. Hand’s research focuses upon the interaction between the host immune system and the intestinal microbiota, with a particular focus on the moments when microorganisms first colonize the host. The lab's research has provided new knowledge on how immune cells are shaped by the microbiome and in turn how colonizing bacteria are shaped by intestinal immunity. Regulating microbial colonization is especially critical in infants where the Hand lab studies how antibodies provided in breast milk shape the development of the infant microbiota and intestinal immune response. Other lab focuses include studies of how the microbiota affects health issues relevant to children, such as vaccination, cancer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Hand has received nationally competitive awards, including awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the Rainin Foundation and the March of Dimes and is the recipient of several NIH grants. Dr. Hand has published over 35 research articles and scholarly reviews and was named the inaugural ‘Emerging Leader’ by the Society for Mucosal Immunology in 2022.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM US ET
Thursday, October 20, 2022
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM US ET