Dennis Kasper

Dennis L. Kasper (born February 23, 1943) is an American microbiologist and immunologist, and the William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He leads the Kasper Laboratory within the Blavatnik Institute in the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He was also executive dean for academic programs at Harvard Medical School and director of the Channing Laboratory Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.^[1]

Kasper is known for his research in interactions of the microbiome and immune system, and his work has played a key role in bringing modern molecular and chemical biology into understanding the role microbes have in development and regulation of the immune system. His primary focus is on immunochemistry alongside the genetics of bacteria and their role in virulence – research that has concentrated on topics related to bacterial polysaccharides and glycolipids.^[2] Kasper is also known as editor (alongside Anthony Fauci, Stephen L. Hauser and others) of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine – a book widely used by medical schools and practicing physicians.