About
Bridging molecules and medicine.
A path that joins molecular science to clinical care — from a doctoral bench in viral immunology to the intensive-care unit, and back to the laboratory.
Profile
Zachary A. Silver
ProfilePhysician-scientist · Pulmonary & Critical Care · UCSF, Shum Lab.
Zachary A. Silver is a physician-scientist in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he works in the laboratory of Anthony Shum.
His path joins molecular science to clinical care. He earned his MD and PhD through the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Miami, completed Internal Medicine residency at Duke University, and now trains in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCSF.
One question runs through all of his work — how the immune system recognizes danger, and what happens when that recognition turns against the body’s own tissues. His doctoral research revealed how HIV hides from the immune system; today he studies the mirror image of that problem: how misdirected immune signaling injures the lung.
Training
The road here
University of Miami
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) — dual doctoral and medical training, with thesis research in viral immunology and glycobiology.
Duke University
Internal Medicine — clinical training and board certification.
UCSF
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, with laboratory research in the Shum Lab on STING-driven interstitial lung disease.
Practice & Consulting
Clinical expertise & collaboration
ConsultingZachary A. Silver, M.D., Ph.D., Inc. — medical & scientific advisory.
Dr. Silver is board-certified in Internal Medicine and licensed to practice medicine in California.
Through his medical corporation, Zachary A. Silver, M.D., Ph.D., Inc., he offers medical and scientific consulting — pairing clinical training in pulmonary and critical care medicine with a research background spanning immunology, genomics, and computational biology.
For consulting inquiries or research collaboration, please get in touch.