Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK, New York, United States
Iliyan Iliev is an Immunologist, laboratory director and an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York. He earned his PhD from the European School of Molecular Medicine and the University of Milan and was previously associated with the Tohoku University, LB Bulgaricum Plc., Meiji Co., Ltd and the Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Iliyan Iliev’ s pioneering research on the gut mycobiota defined a role of commensal fungi in innate mucosal and protective humoral immunity and provided evidence for mycobiota involvement in the pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The laboratory applies translational, experimental and computational approaches to study the role of immunity to mycobiota early and later in life, upon therapeutic interventions and during conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, allergy, gastrointestinal cancers, and immunodeficiencies, where fungi contribute to pathologies. Current effort in the laboratory, focused on the gut-bran axis, explores the unique neuro-modulatory properties of fungi.
Dr. Iliev’s was a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award, CTSI Publication Award, Malaniak Award for Excellence in Research, Young Investigator Award by Cornell University, Irma T. Hirschl Scholar Award, Kenneth Rainin Foundation Innovator and Breakthrough Awards, Society for Mucosal Immunology Young Investigator Award, and is a Burroughs Wellcome Fund PATH Investigator. He is fellow at the Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old STAR program, USA; Research Corporation for Science Advancement program, USA and CIFAR Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities program, Canada.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
1:40pm - 2:05pm East Coast USA Time
