Professor Thomas I. Michalak is an Honorary and University Research
Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL Canada. He is former Senior (Tier 1) Canada Research
Chair in Viral Hepatitis/Immunology and Professor of Molecular Virology and
Medicine (Hepatology). He served as the coordinator of Graduate Programme in
Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Memorial University. Professor Michalak
is an internationally recognized expert in molecular and immunological
mechanisms of viral persistence, virus-induced cellular injury and
carcinogenesis, and in animal and in
vitro models of hepatitis viral infections. He graduated medicine at the
Warsaw Medical University and received PhD in immunopathology in 1976. He
became the Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Liver Studies, King’s
College of London, UK and the Visiting Investigator in Molecular and
Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. He is
elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, recipient of the Queen
Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to the fight against liver
diseases and received the Gold Medal from the Canadian Association for Study of
the Liver and the Canadian Liver Foundation for achievements in research and
science in hepatology. He severed on several research granting agencies in
Canada, USA and other countries, editorial boards, and as a reviewer of
numerous scientific papers.