1. Eric J. Vick
Contact Information Department of Medicine Voice: (615) 663-4578
University of Tennessee Email: evick1@uthsc.edu
Health Science Center
Research Interests Innate immunity, immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune checkpoint
activators, T cell lymphoma.
Education University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN USA
M.D., 2018 (anticipated)
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN USA
Ph. D., Molecular Biosciences, 2014
o Dissertation: “Characterization of the Human Inflammatory
Response to Gardnerella vaginalis”
o Adviser: Anthony Farone
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA
B.S., Biology, 2009
Honors and West Clinic, Medical Student Research Fellowship, 2015
Awards American Society for Reproductive Immunology, Young Investigator
Award, 2014
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society 2012-2014
International Teacher Scientist Partnership, Travel Award, 2013
National Science Foundation, GK-12 Fellowship, 2012

2. MTSU Forensics Department, Forensic Institute Research and Education
Grant, 2011
Sigma Alpha Lambda 2009

3. Academic
Experience
Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Biology,
Murfreesboro, TN
May 2012- May 2014
Assisted in the development of a more experimentally based high school
science curriculum and presented them for evaluation in Santiago, Chile
August 2009- May 2012
Taught Introduction to Biology Labs, Genetics labs, and Immunology
labs of twenty to thirty students two to three time weekly.
Peer Review
Publications
Vick, E.J., Mahadevan. D., (2016) Programming the Immune Checkpoint
to Treat Hematologic Malignancies. Expert Opinion in Experimental
Pharacology. In Press
Gao, Y., Huang, R., Gong, Y., Park., Almosnid, N.M., Chippada-
Venkata, U.D., Hosain, N.A., Vick, E., Farone, A., et al. (2015). The
antidiabetic compound 2-dodecyl-6-methoxycyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-
dione, isolated from averrhoa carambola L., demonstrates significant
antitumor potential against human breast cancer cells. Oncotarget 5.
Vick, E.J., Park, H.S., Huff, K.A., Brooks, K.M., Farone, A.L., and Farone,
M.B. (2014). Gardnerella vaginalis triggers NLRP3 inflammasome
recruitment in THP-1 monocytes. J. Reprod. Immunol. 106, 67–75.
Conferences American Society for Hematology, Orlando, FL
Poster Presentaion: Aurora Plus Pi3k Inhibition
Abrogates Pd-L1 Induction in Peripheral T-Cell
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
December 2015
American Society for Reproductive Immunology,
Long Beach, NY June 2014
Oral Presentation: Gardnerella vaginalis:
Inflammatory Impact and Strain-dependent
Variability- New Investigator Award Winner
June 2014
American Association of Immunologists Annual
Meeting, Honolulu, HI May 2013
Poster Presentation: “Gardnerella vaginalis causes
inflammasome recruitment and inflammatory
cytokine release in human monocytes”
May 2013
Tennessee Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting,
Nashville, TN November 2012
Oral Presentation: “Gardnerella vaginalis causes
inflammasome recruitment and inflammatory
cytokine release”- 3rd
Place Poster
November 2012
American Society for Microbiology Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA June 2012
Poster Presentation: “Gardnerella vaginalis causes
inflammasome recruitment and inflammatory
cytokine release”
June 2012