Daniel A. Portnoy

Daniel A. Portnoy (born 1956 in Syracuse, NY) is a microbiologist, the Edward E. Penhoet Distinguished Chair in Global Public Health and Infectious Diseases, and a professor of biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and in the Division of Microbiology in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the world's foremost experts on ''Listeria monocytogenes'', the bacterium that causes the severe foodborne illness Listeriosis. He has made seminal contributions to multiple aspects of bacterial pathogenesis, cell biology, innate immunity, and cell mediated immunity using ''L. monocytogenes'' as a model system and has helped to push forward the use of attenuated ''L. monocytogenes'' as an immunotherapeutic tool in the treatment of cancer. Provided by Wikipedia