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Meet Our Deputy Director

David H. Munn, MD, is Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at the Medical College of Georgia. Munn received his undergraduate degree from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia (1978), medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia (1984), and postdoctoral training at Rainbow Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

He is a physician-scientist and full-time researcher at the Medical College of Georgia since 1990. Munn’s research is focused on activating the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. His laboratory works on discovering the ways in which cancers suppress the immune system and identifying the mechanisms that tumors use to escape from immune attack.

Munn and his collaborators have developed new drugs and clinical strategies to activate the immune response against tumors, and to enlist the patients’ own immune system to enhance the effectiveness and lower the toxicity of conventional chemotherapy drugs. Target diseases include adult and pediatric solid tumors and leukemias. Munn’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and is supported by multiple charitable foundation donors.