Sarkis K. Mazmanian | |
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| Born | December 19, 1972 |
| Nationality | Armenian American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of California at Los Angeles, B.S. (1995), Ph. D. (2002) |
| Awards | Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship (2002) Searle Scholarship (2006) MacArthur Fellowship (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microbiology Immunology Neuroscience |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| Doctoral advisor | Olaf Schneewind |
| Website | sarkis.caltech.edu |
Sarkis Mazmanian is an American medical microbiologist who has served as a professor at the California Institute of Technology since 2006. He is currently the Luis & Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, and a board member of Seed. Prior to this, Mazmanian was affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago. In 2012, Mazmanian was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his pioneering work on the human microbiome.