The medical school will welcome Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, in April as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Pillai’s presentation, “T-B collaboration, B cell memory and autoimmunity,” is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Jets will be provided for attendees.
If you plan to attend, please register here. Individuals who RSVP will be admitted before those without a reservation.
Dr. Pillai is a professor of medicine and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School. He serves as program director of an NIH-funded Autoimmune Center of Excellence at Massachusetts General Hospital and director of the Harvard Immunology PhD and Masters’ programs.
Dr. Pillai’s lab explores basic questions about the function of the immune system in health and disease. His lab currently pursues three main directions: the immunological and epigenetic mechanisms underlying chronic inflammatory diseases, the molecular basis for self-renewal and memory in the immune system, and O-acetylation of sialic acid and the regulation of immune signal strength.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.