Marcy has a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of California, Berkeley, CA. She was a post-doctoral fellow with Philippa Marrack at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO.

She established her independent research program in the Immunology Department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN before joining the Trudeau Institute in 1999. Marcy's laboratory studies immunity to a persistent virus, and also mechanisms underlying the impaired responses of the elderly population to infection and vaccination.

To contact Dr. Blackman email: mblackman@trudeauinstitute.org