Ruaidhrí Jackson, PhD

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Ruaidhrí Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the National University of Ireland Maynooth under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Moynagh, where he studied the role of E3 ubiquitin ligases in Toll-like receptor signaling. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Richard Flavell’s laboratory at Yale University, investigating non-canonical translation, mechanosensation, cytokine biology, and enteric neuroinflammation in mucosal immunity. Dr. Jackson’s independent laboratory focuses on illuminating the immune system’s “dark genome” by uncovering previously unannotated transcriptomic and proteomic elements that shape host defense. His work integrates RNA biology, neuroimmunology, and mechanobiology to define how sterile environmental cues, particularly mechanical forces, and novel neuro-immune interactions regulate infection, autoinflammation, and cancer. His research has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator Award and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

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