Lyle L. Moldawer, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida
www.med.ufl.edu

Dr. Moldawer received his Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from the Medical Faculty at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden in 1986. His research focuses on the pathophysiologic role of cytokines in the host response to acute and chronic inflammation.

Dr. Moldawer is presently a Professor of Surgery with tenure at the University of Florida College of Medicine, one of only a small number of Ph.D.s in the country with the academic rank of Full Professor in a Department of Surgery. Dr. Moldawer joined the Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine faculty in September, 1993 after serving seven years on the faculty of Cornell University Medical College initially as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Surgery, and Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy.

Dr. Moldawer currently has 245 peer-reviewed publications. Since 1988, he has received continuous independent funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1998, he was the recipient of the prestigious Merit Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, extending his current NIH support through 2006.

Dr. Moldawer is the principal investigator on a NIH training grant to prepare surgical residents in training with a two-year research experience in molecular biology and gene therapy. Since 1988, he has trained 28 surgical residents in research methodologies.

Additionally, Dr. Moldawer is Co-Director of the Protein Analysis and Cell Biology Core, and a member of the Steering Committee, of a National Institute of General Medical Sciences Large Scale Collaborative Research Program (Glue Grant) entitled, “Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury”, funded through 2006 to introduce functional genomics and high throughput proteomics into trauma and sepsis research.

He has sat on or currently sits on the editorial board of five journals, including the American Journal of Physiology, is an Associate Editor of the journal Shock and American Journal of Physiology, and is Section Editor of Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care. A past member of the Metabolic Pathology Study Section of the NIH, Dr. Moldawer serves on special initial review groups for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in the fields of graduate medical education, and burn and trauma physiology.