Tobias Hohl

Assistant Member
Clinical Research Division
Assistant Professor, Medicine
University of Washington
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Microbiology
University of Washington
Attending Physician
UW/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Education

Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2001, MD
Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, 2000, PhD
Duke University, 1993, BS (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

Current Board Certification

American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease)

Research Interests

  • How the vertebrate immune system recognizes and eliminates pathogenic fungi
  • Immune response to Aspergillus fumigatus infections in lungs
  • Role of specific resident and recruited cells in pulmonary host defense

Clinical Expertise

  • Fungal infections
  • Infections in patients with cancer

Current Studies

  • Developing and validating fluorescence methods to visualize and quantify fungal-cell-killing in vivo
  • Contribution of C-type lectin and Toll-like receptor signaling pathways to innate and adaptive antifungal immunity
  • The functional role of monocytes and derivative cells in host defense against respiratory and systemic fungal infections


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