Janko Z. Nikolich, MD, PhD

Dr. Nikolich is internationally recognized as a leading immunologist and gerontologist. In 1990, he joined the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York as the head of both the Flow Cytometry Core Facility and the Laboratory of T Cell Development, first as assistant and then associate member. He served as assistant professor (1990-1996) and associate professor (1996-2001) at both the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and the Division of Molecular Medicine in Cornell University School of Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Nikolich assumed the position of senior scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, along with joint appointments as a tenured professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a senior scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. In 2008, Dr. Nikolich moved to the University of Arizona to lead the Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging. He has published over 130 scientific papers and reviews describing his work.