Edward John Wherry III (known professionally as John Wherry) is an American
immunologist. He is the Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor and department chair of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is also the director of the Penn Institute for Immunology.[1]
Wherry continued on to a postdoctoral fellowship with
Rafi Ahmed at
Emory University from 2000 to 2004.[5] After completing his postdoc, he joined
The Wistar Institute as an assistant professor where he remained until 2010. He then joined the department of Microbiology at the
University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He served as the chair of the Immunology Graduate Group (IGG) from 2011 to 2013 and remains on the IGG Executive Committee. In 2012 he was appointed as director of the Institute for Immunology (IFI).[6] Wherry was named the inaugural Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor in 2017.[7] A year later, Wherry was appointed as chair of the Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics department.[8]
Research
Wherry's research has focused on the field of T cell exhaustion, elucidating mechanisms that attenuate T cell responses during chronic infections and
cancer. His discoveries include characterizing several
immunological checkpoints and T cell states that can be targeted to re-invigorate exhausted T cells. Wherry's lab has played a prominent role in understanding the concept of human immune health using high-dimensional, integrative, translational immunology approaches.[9]
Awards and honors
2018: Stand Up To Cancer Phillip A. Sharp Award[10]
^"Wherry Lab". The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
^"E. John Wherry, PhD". The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
^Wherry, PhD (April 25, 2013).
"Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture". Jefferson Digital Commons. Thomas Jefferson University. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
^Wherry, PhD (April 25, 2013).
"Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture". Jefferson Digital Commons. Thomas Jefferson University. Retrieved December 13, 2020.