Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar is a High Senior Professor at Morehouse School of Medicine. His research integrates immunology, inflammation, and infectious diseases, with a focus on the innate immune system and clinical immunology. Recent work explores the GLP-1/GLP-1R axis linking metabolism to immunity, the complement system in pregnancy and preeclampsia, and immunometabolic reprogramming in cancer immunotherapy. He also investigates cytotoxic T-cell homeostasis, calpain-mediated immunoregulation, and chronic inflammation in immunotherapy resistance, contributing to experimental medicine and cell biology.