Daniel G. Quinn, PhD

Dr. Quinn is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at AUC. He obtained a BA (Mod) in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, in 1985 and a PhD in immunology, also from Trinity College Dublin, in 1990. He has worked as research fellow in the Institute of Dermatology, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, London, and as postdoctoral research fellow in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was Assistant Professor, and subsequently Associate Professor, of immunology in the Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood Illinois, from 1996 until 2003. Since 2003, Dr. Quinn has served as Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Immunology at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. His current research interests focus on the role chemokines in the development of protective antiviral immune responses and on viral immune evasion strategies.