Professor
University of Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Dr. Makowski is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology and in the Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry and Dept. of Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics at the Univ of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. She is also an Associate Director for Education and Development for the UTHSC Center for Cancer Research. Liza earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the Division of Medical Sciences. She also received a Master’s in Medicine concurrent with her Ph.D. studies as a Lucille P. Markey Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She completed postdoctoral studies at Duke University Medical Center in the Stedman Center for Nutrition and Metabolism. After 8 years as faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in the Department of Nutrition- Division of Biochemistry where she received tenure, she moved to Memphis to join the University of TN Health Science Center (UTHSC) in 2017. The Makowski lab studies reprogramming of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment and has worked on atherosclerosis and diabetes over the past 15+ years. Dr. Makowski’s current research focuses on immunotherapy for which she currently has a U01 and two R01s to examine the impacts on obesity and breast cancer with regard to risk, response to therapy, and underlying genetics. She was awarded a Mark Foundation award in 2024.
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Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, the Gut Microbiome, and Immunotherapy Response in Breast Cancer
Friday, June 27, 2025
8:00am - 8:30am East Coast USA Time
