Steve Galli

Stephen Galli received his BA and MD degrees from Harvard and became professor of pathology there in 1993. Since 1999, Steve has been the Mary Hewitt Loveless, MD Professor, and a professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and was chair of pathology from 1999-2014. 

Research of the Galli Lab focuses on the development and function of mast cells and basophils (major effector cells in allergic disorders) and the development of new animal models for studying the roles of these cells in health and disease. Steve has particular interests in the roles of mast cells and basophils in anaphylaxis, food allergies, and asthma, and in the beneficial roles of mast cells in promoting both innate and acquired, IgE-enhanced, host defense against venoms and certain bacteria. 

Steve was president of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) (2005-2006) and was elected to the Pluto Club (American Association of University Pathologists) (President, 2018-2019), the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (President, 2010-2014), the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Clinical and Climatological Association and the National Academy of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (National Academy of the Lynxes) in Rome, regarded as the oldest secular scientific society in the Western World. Steve received a MERIT Award from the NIAID/NIH (1995-2006), Scientific Achievement Awards from the International Association of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (1997) and the World Allergy Organization (2011), the Rous-Whipple (2014) and Gold-Headed Cane (2024) Awards of the ASIP, the Karl Landsteiner Medal of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (2014) and the Dottorato di Ricerca Honoris Causa in Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale (Honorary PhD in Clinical and Experimental Medicine), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (2019).