Dr. Esmaeil Mortaz
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Immunology, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD) & Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Associate Professor of Immunology, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD) & Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Lung immunology Tuberculosis & COVID-19 Innate immune receptors
Top 3 Highlights:
- Clarified immune dysregulation in COVID-19 — Lead author of the highly cited review “The Immune Response and Immunopathology of COVID-19” in Frontiers in Immunology (2020), widely used to understand cytokine storm and immune mechanisms in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- Defined how pattern-recognition receptors sense Mycobacterium tuberculosis — First author of the influential Journal of Clinical Immunology review “Interaction of Pattern Recognition Receptors with Mycobacterium tuberculosis,” now a core reference on innate immune sensing in TB.
- Built a translational lung-immunology program across TB, COPD, and trauma — Conducted clinical and experimental studies from neutrophil phenotypes predicting trauma survival to airway inflammation in COPD and biomarker work in TB/COVID-19, linking bench immunology to real-world pulmonary disease.
