Professor of Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Thomas J. Mariani, PhD, is currently David Hamilton Smith Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics and Chief Scientific Officer for the Center for Children’s Health Research at the University of Rochester. He holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Genetics and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Mariani received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rutgers University, and completed postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry. His early work focused on the molecular and cell biology of extracellular matrix in mammalian systems, with relevance to human disease. Dr. Mariani established his independent research program within the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University in 1999, focusing on regulatory mechanisms common to lung development and disease, and incorporating genome-wide analytics. In 2001, Dr. Mariani was recruited to Harvard Medical School, to continue his research program as Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. While there, he established and directed the Bioinformatics Core for the Lung Biology Center at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mariani joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2008, received tenure in 2012 and was promoted to full professor in 2016. His efforts in Infectious Diseases are focused upon respiratory infections, and were largely driven by outstanding collaborative opportunities within the rich and internationally-recognized environment at the University of Rochester. In addition to maintaining a robust, multi-disciplinary research program he is a committed mentor, and has received local and national reccognition for mentoring trainees of multiple backgrounds and levels. Dr. Mariani also has an extensive history in professional service, serving multiple organizational and leadership roles for the American Thoracic Soceity and the Society for Pediatric Research.