Eric Pamer, MD, FIDSA
Scientific Advisory Board Member

Eric Pamer is an accomplished researcher, focused on the impact of the intestinal microbiota on infections in patients receiving cancer treatment. He currently serves as the director of the Duchossois Family Institute and a medicine, microbiology, and pathology professor at the University of Chicago. 

He was a postdoctoral fellow with Charles E. Davis at UCSD, Maggie So at Scripps Research Institute and Michael Bevan at the University of Washington and then moved to Yale University and established a laboratory focusing on immune responses to microbial infection. In 2000, he moved his laboratory to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York where he was the Chief of Infectious Diseases, Head of the Division of Subspecialty Medicine and Director of the Center for Microbes, Inflammation and Cancer, which focused on the role of the microbiome in the treatment of cancer.

Since 2019, Dr. Pamer has been the Director of the Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago, where the Eric Pamer laboratory studies interactions between pathogenic and beneficial bacteria and their mammalian hosts. 

He received his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine from Case Western Reserve University.