Jonathan (Jon) Herman is a physician scientist and Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Jon grew up in Yorktown Heights, NY and moved to Providence, RI to study Biochemisty and Molecular biology as an undergrad at Brown University. After graduating, Jon received a Fullbright fellowship to study the epidemiology of drug resistance to malaria in Cameroon with Wilfred Mbacham and the University of Yaoundé I. He received his M.D. Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School and worked with Professor Dyann Wirth at the Harvard School of Public Health for his PhD research and focused on molecular parasitology, infectious disease genetics, and identified the biological target of the ancient Chinese herbal remedy isolated from Dichroa febrifuga.

After completing his M.D. Ph.D., he pursued Internal Medicine Residency at New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center. Inspired by burgeoning field of cancer immunotherapies he saw at Memorial Sloan Kettering as a house office, Jonathan redirected his research career to human immunology. Jonathan learned the fundamentals of systems antibody immunology in the laboratories of Galit Alter, Ph.D. and Facundo Batista, Ph.D. at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Jon is passionate about global health infectious disease research and using systems immunology approaches to understand the human immune system. Altogether, he hopes his basic-to-translational approaches can lead to new vaccines and treatment of malaria and other pathogens important for human health. 

Contact: JDHerman@mednet.ucla.edu