Felix Yarovinsky, MD

Assistant Professor
Endowed Title: Nancy Cain and Jeffrey A. Marcus Scholar in Medical Research, in Honor of Dr. Bill S. Vowell 2007-2011
Immunology
Graduate Program: Immunology
Molecular Microbiology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-7309
Office Fax: 214-648-7331

felix.yarovinsky@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolRussiam State Medical University-Moscow, Medicine (2000)
UndergraduateRussian State Medical University-Moscow (1997)

Research Interests

Dendritic cells
Infectious diseases
Innate immunity
Toll-like receptors

Publications

Featured
TLR11 activation of dendritic cells by a protozoan profilin-like protein

Yarovinsky F, Zhang D, Andersen JF, Bannenberg GL, Serhan CN, Hayden MS, Hieny S, Sutterwala FS, Flavell RA, Ghosh S, Sher A , Science , June 2005; (10;308(5728)):1626-9

Featured
Critical coordination of innate immune defense against Toxoplasma gondii by dendritic cells responding via their Toll-like receptors.

Hou B, Benson A, Kuzmich L, DeFranco AL, Yarovinsky F. , PNAS , January 2011; (108(1)):278-83

Featured
Gut commensal bacteria direct a protective immune response against Toxoplasma gondii

Alicia Benson, Reed Pifer, Cassie L. Behrendt, Lora V. Hooper, Felix Yarovinsky , Cell Host&Microbe , August 2009; (6(2)):187-96

Innate responses to Toxoplasma gondii in mice and humans.

Pifer R, Yarovinsky F. , Trends in Parasitology , May 2011; (in press)

Critical coordination of innate immune defense against Toxoplasma gondii by dendritic cells responding via their Toll-like receptors

Hou B, Benson A, Kuzmich L, DeFranco AL, Yarovinsky F. , PNAS , January 2011; (108(1)):278-83

UNC93B1 is essential for TLR11 activation and IL-12-dependent host resistance to Toxoplasma gondii.

Pifer R, Benson A, Sturge CR, Yarovinsky F. , J Biol Chem , February 2011; (286(5)):3307-14

Gut commensal bacteria direct a protective immune response against Toxoplasma gondii

Alicia Benson, Reed Pifer, Cassie L. Behrendt, Lora V. Hooper, Felix Yarovinsky , Cell Host&Microbe , 2009;

Honors/Awards

Fellows Awards for Research Excellence

(in Innate and Cell-Mediated Host Defenses) (2007)

U.T. Southwestern Endowed Scholar in Biomedical Research

(2007)

Fellows Awards for Research Excellence

(in Innate and Cell-Mediated Host Defenses) (2006)

The Best Publication of 2005. NIH Cytokine Interest Group. NIH

(2006)

Fellows Awards for Research Excellence

(in Infectious Diseases) (2005)