Filip Swirski is a Polish-Canadian-American scientist and educator serving as the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine, Cardiology and Professor of Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute.
[1][2][3] Swirski earned his Bachelor of Arts and Science specializing in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in immunology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
He was professor at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard Medical School.
His research uses in vivo models of acute and chronic inflammation relevant to cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious, and metabolic diseases.
[5] His writings reflect translational and fundamental cardiovascular and neurodegenerative science research, including cell development, mind-marrow communication, and function.