Erika Pearce

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Erika Pearce is Director and Senior Group Leader at the Department of Immunometabolism of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany. Her research strives to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms related to T cells and the immune response. She currently focuses on the role of metabolism in regulating memory T cell development and effector T cell function. Pearce also has editorial responsibilities at a number of renowned scientific journals including Science, Nature and Cell. In 2014, she received the “Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award” of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.