Michael Karim Mansour MD, PhD

Dr. Michael Mansour is a physician-scientist involved in the investigation of invasive fungal diseases. He is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Transplant Infectious Diseases Attending in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Mansour obtained his MD and Ph.D. degrees from the Boston University School of Medicine. His Ph.D. focused on the host response to Cryptococcus neoformans. He completed his internal medicine training at Mass General, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident, after which he completed the Harvard combined Infectious Diseases, fellowship.

Dr. Mansour’s clinical work focuses mainly on the care of solid and bone marrow transplant patients with infectious complications. In addition, he maintains a basic research laboratory investigating the critical molecular mechanisms responsible for host immune responses to life-threatening fungal pathogens.