Rafi Ahmed

Rafi Ahmed is currently Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Director of the Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and is also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminant Scholar. He earned his undergraduate degree from Osmania University, India, and his PhD from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

After completing his postdoctoral training in the Department of Immunology at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California, Rafi Ahmed joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He remained at UCLA from 1984-1995 and moved to Emory University in 1995.

His research efforts are directed toward understanding the mechanisms of immunological memory and using this knowledge to develop new and more effective vaccines.