Prof. Kodi Ravichandran, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology at WashU Medicine at the Washington University in St Louis and Group Leader at VIB/Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, is a leading expert on how apoptotic cells are recognized and removed from the body both during homeostasis and disease, using a variety of models, including mouse models of human disease.
Kodi Ravi established his independent laboratory at the University of Virginia, where he currently is Harrison Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia. Dr. Ravichandran is also the Director of the Centre for Cell Clearance and Division Chief of the Dept of Immunobiology at WashU.
He was awarded an Odysseus 1 award from the FWO in 2016 and started his laboratory at Ghent University/VIB in 2017 where he now an established laboratory in Belgium (with 8 postdoctoral fellows, PhD student, and two technical staff). He recently received an Advanced ERC grant.
