Dr. Artis completed his doctoral research training at the University of Manchester, UK focusing on regulation of immunity and inflammation in the intestine. Following receipt of a Wellcome Trust Prize Traveling Fellowship, he undertook his post-doctoral fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania where he continued his research training in examining the regulation of immune responses at barrier surfaces. Dr. Artis joined the faculty at Penn in 2005 and became a Professor of Microbiology at Perelman School of Medicine at Penn in 2014.

Dr. Artis moved to Cornell University and became the inaugural Michael Kors Professor of Immunology and Director of the Jill Roberts Institute for IBD Research at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University in New York City in 2014. Dr. Artis subsequently assumed the role of Director of the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation and Co-Director of the Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Interactions at WCM. 

Dr. Artis has developed a research program focused on dissecting the pathways that regulate innate and adaptive immune cell function and host-microbiota interactions at barrier surfaces in the context of health and disease.  He has also employed multidisciplinary approaches to dissect cellular and molecular pathways that control the gut-brain axis, including single nucleus sequencing, untargeted metabolomics, CRISPR targeting of the microbiota and chemo- and optogenetic tools to manipulate the nervous system. His research program also encompasses a significant effort to translate research findings in pre-clinical models into patient-based studies of immune-mediated diseases.

Dr. Artis has published more than 280 peer-reviewed primary and review papers with an H-index of 102 with more than 49,000 citations. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2004 and also receives support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation and the Paul Allen Foundation. He has been the recipient of Investigator Awards from the American Association of Immunology, the International Cytokine Society and Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation including the Colyton Prize, the William E. Paul Award for Outstanding Research, the Stanley Cohen Prize and the AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award.