Assistant Professor
UCLA
Dr. Harry Pickering is an immunologist and bioinformatician. He joined the UCLA faculty in 2024 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Immunogenetics. Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Pickering completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh before undertaking graduate studies at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr. Pickering joined the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UCLA in 2020, initially as a Postdoctoral Researcher before progressing to Project Scientist in 2023. Dr. Pickering’s current research focuses on understanding the interaction between the innate and adaptive immune responses in viral infection in immunosuppressed transplant recipients. His research utilizes modern systems immunology approaches including multiparameter immunophenotyping, transcriptomics, proteomics and epigenetics coupled with bioinformatics and computational modeling to understand disease mechanisms and for predicting clinical outcomes.