Mitchell Kronenberg received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, also was a postdoctoral fellowship there, and served on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine.  He joined the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in 1997, and was President (2003-2021), Chief Scientific Officer (2021-2023) and is now Professor and President Emeritus. The Kronenberg laboratory investigates the development and function of iNKT and MAIT cells, particularly in the context of infections.  The lab also investigates aspects of mucosal immunity, especially the function of HVEM and other TNF family receptors in regulating immunity and intraepithelial T cells.