Peter Sarnow, PhD

Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Education
M.S. University of Konstanz, Germany, 1979
Ph.D. (Microbiology), SUNY at Stony Brook, NY,  1982

About
Director of Graduate Program, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine (2002-Present)
Member of the Committee on Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2001-2004)
Member of School of Medicine Awards Committee, Stanford University School of Medicine (2005-Present)
Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine (2010-2017)

Career
1999-present: Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
1996-1999: Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
1991-1996: Associate Professor of Molecular Biology. Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Genetics. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
1986-1991: Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology. Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Genetics. University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, CO
1982-1986: Postdoctoral research with David Baltimore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
1979-1982: Dissertation Research with Arnold J. Levine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Professional Honors and Recognition
• Member National Academy of Sciences, awarded 2020
• Predoctoral Fellowship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society, 1992-1997
• The Sidney and Skippy Frank Prize /Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University, 2006
 

Professional activities outside of Stanford
• Editor, Virology
• Editorial Board, Genes and Development
• Editorial Board, Journal of Virology
• Editorial Board, Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Editorial Board, Gene Expression
• Permanent member of the Immunology, Virology and Pathology Study Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1993-1996
• Permanent member of the Experimental Virology Study Section, 1999-2003