Felix Yarovinsky, M.D.

Undergraduate	Russian State Medical University-moscow (1997)
Medical School	Russiam State Medical University-moscow (2000), Medicine

• Dendritic cells
• Infectious diseases
• Innate immunity
• Toll-like receptors

Featured Publications

Critical coordination of innate immune defense against Toxoplasma gondii by dendritic cells responding via their Toll-like receptors.

Hou B, Benson A, Kuzmich L, DeFranco AL, Yarovinsky F. PNAS January 2011 108(1) 278-83

Gut commensal bacteria direct a protective immune response against Toxoplasma gondii

Alicia Benson, Reed Pifer, Cassie L. Behrendt, Lora V. Hooper, Felix Yarovinsky Cell Host&Microbe August 2009 6(2) 187-96

TLR11 activation of dendritic cells by a protozoan profilin-like protein

Yarovinsky F, Zhang D, Andersen JF, Bannenberg GL, Serhan CN, Hayden MS, Hieny S, Sutterwala FS, Flavell RA, Ghosh S, Sher A Science June 2005 10;308(5728) 1626-9

Innate responses to Toxoplasma gondii in mice and humans.

Pifer R, Yarovinsky F. Trends in Parasitology May 2011 in press

UNC93B1 is essential for TLR11 activation and IL-12-dependent host resistance to Toxoplasma gondii.

Pifer R, Benson A, Sturge CR, Yarovinsky F. J Biol Chem February 2011 286(5) 3307-14

• Fellows Awards for Research Excellence
  (in Innate and Cell-Mediated Host Defenses) (2007)
• U.T. Southwestern Endowed Scholar in Biomedical Research
  (2007)
• Fellows Awards for Research Excellence
  (in Innate and Cell-Mediated Host Defenses) (2006)
• The Best Publication of 2005. NIH Cytokine Interest Group. NIH
  (2006)
• Fellows Awards for Research Excellence
  (in Infectious Diseases) (2005)