Noah Sather, PhD

Professor, Department of Global, Environmental, and Genomic Health Sciences

Contact Info

• Academic Email: dnsather@usf.edu
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Education

Biography

Dr. D. Noah Sather is a Professor in the Department of Global, Environmental, and Genomic Health sciences at the USF College of Public Health with a joint appointment in the USF Institute for Translational Virology  Innovation.  He earned his BS and PhD in Biological Sciences from Wayne State University and did his postdoctoral training at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.  Dr. Sather's research focuses on the development of vaccines for the two major forms of malaria and for HIV-1, with an emphasis on understanding natural prototypes of antibody-mediated immunity.  Natural prototypes of protective immunity guide vaccine design by identifying the targets of naturally-acquired immunity and defining the mechanisms of protection, which inform the design of novel vaccines and provide benchmarks for vaccine-elicited immune responses. This enables an iterative, guided approach to developing new vaccines, and also enables fundamental mechanistic discoveries about B cell immunity.   His laboratory has pioneered numerous tools to study antibody mediated immunity, including monoclonal antibody technologies and next generation B cell repertoire sequencing.  His work is made possible by numerous domestic and international partnerships, especially in malaria endemic regions.