Jeffrey K. Actor, PhD is a professor and Medical Immunology Course Director in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Health Center at Houston. He is the author of Elsevier’s Integrated Review of Immunology and Microbiology, 2nd Edition.

Dr. Actor received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts. His research interests include examination of host immune responses during parasitic disease; understanding proinflammatory and regulatory cytokines during mycobacterial infections; vaccine development; and molecular mechanisms of Lactoferrin immunomodulation.