Scott Evans

Scott Evans is a Senior Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research focuses on respiratory medicine, immunology, and infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on antiviral immunity, inflammation, and immune responses to respiratory pathogens. His recent work investigates inhaled pattern recognition receptor agonists for preventing type 2 allergic inflammation and restoring immune paralysis in influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis, as well as alveolar type 2 cell chromatin dynamics during lung injury-repair. He has contributed to clinical practice guidelines and experimental models of bacterial pneumonia through American Thoracic Society workshops, publishing in venues including mBio, iScience, and the European Journal of Immunology.