Robert W Maitta is a Professor at the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. He received his BS and MA from The City College of New York. He then studied at the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in New York, where he received his MD, MS, and PhD from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He completed his residency in Clinical Pathology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. His residency training was followed by the completion of a fellowship in Transfusion Medicine from Yale University’s Yale New Haven Hospital. He joined the faculty of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in 2011. His research interests span both clinical/translational medicine and basic science. His work was the first to report, using a murine model, the importance of α-synuclein in the development/maturation of immune-competent B and T cells.