Rate My Professor Barry Rouse

Professor Barry T. Rouse serves as the Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor of Microbiology in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he has been on the faculty since 1977. A veterinary graduate of the University of Bristol in 1965, he obtained an M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in 1967, a Ph.D. in 1970 after postdoctoral work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Bristol in 1997. Named a Distinguished Professor in 1994 and a UT Institute Professor in 2017, Rouse pioneered research on viral immunology and immunopathology, particularly herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infections in mice. His studies focus on mechanisms of tissue damage in the eye, such as herpetic stromal keratitis, and the nervous system, examining roles of proinflammatory T cells, regulatory T cells, neutrophils, cytokines, chemokines, neovascularization, and immunometabolism.