Sarah Merritt Fortune (born 1968) is an American immunologist. She is a

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of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the

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Personal life

Fortune was born to parents Beverly and William Fortune in

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. Her father was a professor at the

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and her mother was a reporter at the ''

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''.

Career

After earning her MD at the

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, she completed an internship and medical residency in Internal Medicine at

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. By 2006, Fortune accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the

. Fortune's research focuses on attempting to understand how M. tuberculosis (Mtb) mutates itself to become drug resistant. She collaborated with Harvard professor Megan B. Murray to study how tuberculosis develops drug-resistance mutations. In 2010, Fortune was the recipient of a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In 2012, she was appointed the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. Three years later, she was promoted to full professor. In 2019, Fortune's research lab, the Harvard Chan School IMPAc-TB Center, received a contract award to help establish three new Immune Mechanisms of Protection Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (IMPAc-TB) Centers. In 2021, Fortune was elected a Fellow of the

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