Arturo Casadevall is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease research, with a focus on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function.
29 Facts About Arturo Casadevall
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Arturo Casadevall was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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Arturo Casadevall was born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, in 1957 from a Catalan-descendant family.
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Arturo Casadevall moved to Elmhurst, Queens, New York City in 1968 and became a US citizen in 1976.
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Arturo Casadevall completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Center, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Arturo Casadevall is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and the subspecialty of infectious diseases.
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Until July 2009, Dr Arturo Casadevall served as an editor of the ASM journal Infection and Immunity and continues to serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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Arturo Casadevall is the founding Editor in Chief of mBio, the first open access general journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
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Arturo Casadevall served as a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity from 2005 to 2014.
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Arturo Casadevall was a commissioner for the National Forensic Commission of the United States Department of Justice from 2015 to 2017.
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In March 2015, Arturo Casadevall was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University for his accomplishments as an interdisciplinary researcher and excellence in teaching.
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Arturo Casadevall holds appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Department of Infectious Diseases.
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Arturo Casadevall serves as the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2015.
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Arturo Casadevall is profiled in the last chapter of Range by David Epstein, a book arguing against specialization.
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Arturo Casadevall's groundbreaking work in the field of infectious diseases has been recognized by many, including the National Institutes of Health, which presented him with a Merit Award in 2007.
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Arturo Casadevall received several distinguished awards, including the Alumni Achievement Award in Basic Science from New York University, the Rhoda Benham Award of the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas, the Kass Lecture from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Microbiology.
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In 2022, Arturo Casadevall received the Lucille Georg Award from the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology.
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Arturo Casadevall has served as President of the Medical Mycology Society of America, Chair of American Society for Microbiology Division F, Chair of the American Society for Microbiology Career Development Committee, and Co-Chair of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors, and currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Pasteur Institute.
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Arturo Casadevall is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.
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Arturo Casadevall was named a Johns Hopkins Gilman Scholar in 2018.
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Arturo Casadevall was elected a distinguished fellow by the American Association of Immunologists in 2023.
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Arturo Casadevall is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
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Arturo Casadevall has defined much of what is known about fungal pathogenesis and how fungi such as Cryptococcus neoformans evade the host immune response.
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Arturo Casadevall has a long record of outstanding scholarly and leadership contributions.
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Arturo Casadevall's lab has studied host-microbe interactions with Cryptococcus neoformans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Bacillus anthracis, with a focus on microbial pathogenesis and mechanisms of antibody action.
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Arturo Casadevall's lab established that humoral immunity could protect against intracellular pathogens, demonstrated that Cryptococcus neoformans was a facultative intracellular pathogen, and suggested that virulence in environmental fungi was selected by amoeba predators, a hypothesis dubbed "accidental virulence".
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Arturo Casadevall's lab continues to work on fungal and bacterial pathogenesis.
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Arturo Casadevall has written about the impact of climate change on fungal infections, especially fungal infections caused by the drug-resistant fungus Candida Auris, a species of fungus that grows as yeast.
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Arturo Casadevall has published more than 1,000 papers and 33 book chapters, largely in the fields of immunology and microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, biochemistry, and medicine, and more recently scientific culture and competition.