Jan Simper

Jan Simper is a graduate student in the UT Health San Antonio Medical Scientist Training Program, where he is working on an MD and a PhD in microbiology and immunology. He is interested in understanding how people become sick and studying treatments for infectious diseases to help advance medicine forward. For the next three years, he will be training and conducting research in Dr. Larry Schlesinger’s lab at Texas Biomed. Specifically, he will study a family of receptors in lung macrophages, which are a type of immune cell; their role in protecting against tuberculosis infection; and potential host-directed therapies.