Mihai Netea

Mihai Netea (1968) is an internal medicine and infectious diseases specialist, and professor of Experimental Internal Medicine. His work aims to understand the host and environmental factors that influence heterogeneity of the human immune responses. Mihai Netea described long-term memory characteristics in innate immune cells, a process termed trained immunity, that has revolutionized the understanding of immune regulation (Nature Rev Immunol 2020). During the last 5 years he coordinated phase III trials assessing heterologous protection against respiratory infections in the elderly (Cell 2020, Lancet Infect Dis 2021) and COVID-19 (Clin Infect Dis 2021). In addition, his work has put the base on personalized immunotherapy in COVID-19 (Nature Med 2021) and sepsis (Cell Reports Med 2022).