Rate My Professor Philippa Marrack

Philippa Marrack, PhD, FRS, is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she has held professorial positions since 1985 in departments including Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Immunology. She currently serves as Chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at National Jewish Health, having previously chaired the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine there. She was also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1986 to 2017. Marrack obtained her B.A. in Biochemistry in 1967 and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 1970 from New Hall, University of Cambridge, England. Her early career included postdoctoral fellowships at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Rochester, followed by faculty appointments at the University of Rochester from 1975 to 1979. In 1979, she joined the Department of Medicine at National Jewish Health, and in 1980, she became Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.