Cori Fain, PhD

Cori Fain, PhD is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harty Laboratory in the pathology department at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine. Fain also is the chair of the 2027 Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease Gordon Research Seminar. Fain earned her PhD from the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences with a research focus in neuroimmunology, cancer and infectious disease. Her current research focuses on tissue-resident memory T cells and their accumulation in the brain in health, disease, and aging. Fain studies how these new resident cells in the brain affect distinct brain microenvironments and CNS function.