Donald D. Anthony MD PhD is Professor of Medicine, Senior Clinician Scientist at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and Staff Rheumatologist at both MetroHealth and the Cleveland VA Medical Center.

He obtained his graduate degree in Biochemistry, studying the regulation of protein synthesis at the level of cap binding and RNA unwinding initiation factor activity utilized in cap independent viral translation. He believes he performed the first adaptation of toeprinting (ribosome footprinting) in a eukaryotic system and helped to elucidate the role of cap binding protein factors in cap independent Internal Ribosomal Entry Site (IRES) dependent translation, working in the laboratory of William C Merrick.

Post-Doctoral work involved evaluation of host T cell autoimmunity in the collagen induced arthritis model system. He joined the faculty at Case in 1999 and since then he has been continuously funded at the national level to lead an investigative team for the study of dendritic cell, T cell and NK cell subsets, and pathways underlying chronic immune activation in the setting of HCV and HIV infection.

More recently focus has included the settings of HCV associated HCC, Autoimmune Disease (Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis), and COVID. He serves as a senior editor on the Case Western Reserve journal Pathogens and Immunity, enjoys skiing, watching baseball and spending time on the water.