Matthew Woodruff

Matthew Woodruff

Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University

Matthew is an immunologist and instructor at Emory University in Georgia. He received a bachelor’s degree in science in biotechnology in 2008 from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and completed a doctorate in immunology at Harvard University in 2014. In 2014 he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University, studying the early phases of immune response, then transitioned into a human immunology lab under Iñaki Sanz, specializing in the study of autoimmune diseases. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has studied the immune responses in patients with severe COVID-19.

Articles by: Matthew Woodruff

Stylized SEM of the SARS coronavirus.

COVID-19 causes some patients' immune systems to attack their own bodies

By Matthew Woodruff published

Across the world, immunologists who retooled their labs to join the fight against SARS-CoV-2 are furiously trying to explain why some people get so sick while others recover unscathed.