Dr. Robert McMaster is the Director of the Immunity and Infection Research Centre at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. He is also a Professor and the Head of the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia, Director of Transplant Immunology for the British Columbia Transplant Research Institute, and a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Microbiology and Infection Committee. Dr. McMaster received an MSc in Immunology from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. Dr. McMaster’s research involves molecular immunology, transplant immunology, and immunogenetics.
His research is studying the intracellular pathogen, Leishmania, to gain an understanding of cell-surface protein interactions with the host immune system. His group also studies the modulation of host macrophage gene expression by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a major pathogen worldwide.
