Sarah Fortune

{{short description|American immunologist}}

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Sarah Merritt Fortune (born 1968) is an American immunologist. She is a Full Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Personal life

Fortune was born to parents Beverly and William Fortune in Lexington, Kentucky. Her father was a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and her mother was a reporter at the Lexington Herald-Leader.{{cite news |title=Sarah M. Fortune, Timothy W. Hyde |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/style/sarah-m-fortune-timothy-w-hyde.html |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |work=New York Times |date=August 4, 1996}}

Career

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After earning her MD at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she completed an internship and medical residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. By 2006, Fortune accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.{{cite web |title=Sarah Merritt Fortune promoted to Tenured Professor |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biological-sciences/2015/12/10/sarah-merritt-fortune-promoted-to-tenured-professor/ |website=hsph.harvard.edu |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |date=December 10, 2015}} Fortune's research focuses on attempting to understand how M. tuberculosis (Mtb) mutates itself to become drug resistant.{{cite web |title=Faculty members Nan Laird, Robert Blendon, and Sarah Fortune honored |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/laird-blendon-professorships/ |website=hsph.harvard.edu |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |date=December 15, 2011}} She collaborated with Harvard professor Megan B. Murray to study how tuberculosis develops drug-resistance mutations.{{cite web |title=TB superstrains |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/fall08xdrtb/ |website=hsph.harvard.edu |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |date=Fall 2008}} In 2010, Fortune was the recipient of a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.{{cite web |title=Tuberculosis researcher Sarah Fortune receives clinical scientist development award |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/infectious-diseases-tuberculosis-sarah-fortune-html/ |website=hsph.harvard.edu |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |date=July 2, 2010}}

In 2012, she was appointed the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. Three years later, she was promoted to full professor. In 2019, Fortune's research lab, the Harvard Chan School IMPAc-TB Center, received a contract award to help establish three new Immune Mechanisms of Protection Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (IMPAc-TB) Centers.{{cite web |title=NIH Awards Contracts to Advance Tuberculosis Immunology Research |url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-awards-contracts-advance-tuberculosis-immunology-research |website=niaid.nih.gov |accessdate=December 5, 2019 |date=September 26, 2019}} In 2021, Fortune was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.{{cite web |title=65 Fellows Elected into the American Academy of Microbiology |url=https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2021/February/65-Fellows-Elected-into-the-American-Academy-of-Mi |publisher=American Society for Microbiology |access-date=March 29, 2022}}

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