Marion Pepper

Marion Pepper is an American medical professor and immunologist, who is currently working as a professor in immunology at the University of Washington; and is currently serving as the chair of the university's Department of Immunology since 2022, having served as the interim chair since 2021. Quotes We're learning so much about this virus and the immune response to it in a way that we've never done previously. taken from an interview with NPR, 15 January 2021 The one thing that matters is where we are in this whole pandemic. I would be watching what the variants are doing. taken from an article by the New York Times, 30 March 2022 There is a considerable amount of bias in peer review, and we need to come up with systems to extract that bias so that articles can be reviewed fairly. It is early days, and we have a lot of work left to do in this area. I think for us, really looking at the cells that can respond to the infection has given us a unique insight into even long-term COVID-19. The take-home is, so far, so good, but time will tell. I think that is going to be a really hard thing for us to be able to predict. The only thing that is going to tell us how long this immunity lasts is people's resistance to disease. We also need to strive to do more rigorous studies of human immune responses. taken from an interview published in the Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, 18 October 2021 External links