Biography
Moon H. Nahm (b.1948), Professor of Pathology, with secondary appointment in Microbiology, obtained both BA degree (in 1970) and MD degree (in 1974) from Washington University St. Louis MO. In 1980, he completed both Laboratory Medicine residency training in Pathology Department and post-doctoral research training with Dr. Joseph Davie in Microbiology Department at Washington University, St. Louis MO. He was a faculty member at Washington University, St. Louis MO from 1980 till 1996. He then moved to University of Rochester, Rochester NY until he joined UAB as a Professor in June 2001. He is directing the clinical immunology laboratory for UAB hospitals. In his research laboratory, he studies immune responses to pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens, bacterial pathogenesis, diagnosis of bacterial infections, and vaccines against bacterial infections. In addition, his laboratory serves as the pneumococcal reference laboratory for NIH and WHO. He is married and has two children.
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