The medical school will welcome Mark Kaplan, PhD, in November as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Kaplan’s presentation, “Counting to 9: The amazing adventures of the ninth interleukin,” is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Jet’s 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. Kaplan is the Nicole Brown Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Director of Basic Sciences for the Brown Center for Immunotherapy at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He earned his PhD in immunology and microbiology from Wayne State University and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Dr. Kaplan has been continuously funded by NIH for more than 25 years and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles. His research focuses on cytokine control of inflammation in the context of allergic airway inflammation, tumors in the lung, anaphylaxis, and autoimmunity. He is also working on developing allergen-specific anaphylaxis inhibitors for use in patients.
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.