Dr. August is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Professor of Immunology, and the Deputy Provost at Cornell. He is also a Presidential Advisor on Diversity and Equity at Cornell. His previous position was Chair of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. Prior to that, he was Distinguished Professor of Immunology in the Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, and Director of the Center for Molecular Immunology & Infectious Disease, at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park, where he started as an Assistant Professor. He received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology from the California State University at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. degree in Immunology from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University with the late Hidesaburo Hanafusa. See him talk about his research and Cornell experience on the Cornell Portraits of Extraordinary People: "Targeting asthma in animals and humans".
Amie Redko, Research Support Specialist
I have a BS in Veterinary and Animal Sciences from UMASS Amherst and have been with the August lab since July 1, 2010.
I manage our mouse colony and train all students in mouse handling and specific technical skills pertaining to mouse work.
Undergraduate Researchers
Ying Chen
Bio coming soon!
Elizabeth Painter
Bio coming soon!