Tomas Ganz is an American physician-scientist who has made important contributions to innate immunology and the pathophysiology of iron regulation.
[1] He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1948, and immigrated to the United States in 1966.
Later he received a joint appointment in the graduate program in cellular and molecular pathology.
He has studied the role of small peptide mediators in human physiology and disease.
In 2005, he received the Marcel Simon Prize of the International Bioiron Society for the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin[2] and in 2014 was honored by the E. Donnall Thomas Award from the American Society of Hematology "... for his groundbreaking research in iron homeostasis, including the discovery of the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin and investigation of its roles in iron metabolism".