Mitchell Kronenberg received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, and after a postdoctoral fellowship there, he was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine. He joined the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in 1997 and served as President (2003-2021), and now as Chief Scientific Officer. The Kronenberg laboratory investigates the development and function of iNKT cells and, more recently, MAIT cells. The lab analyzes the response of these innate-like T cells to acute infections. The lab also investigates aspects of mucosal immunity, especially the function of HVEM and other TNF family receptors in regulating immunity.