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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Mark M. Davis, Ph.D., The Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology; director, Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection; member, Bio-X, Child Health Research Institute and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University

Speaker bio(s)

For the past thirty years or more, inbred mice have dominated immunological studies and the advantages of this model have transformed the field, clarifying many issues and allowing for the discovery of important aspects of the system. But there are also many limitations to mice, not the least of which has been the difficulty in most cases of translating treatments developed in mouse models of disease to human beings. But recent advances in technology and approach have shown that direct and comprehensive studies of human immunity are now possible, and this has also revealed a number of surprises that show such efforts can substantially add to our understanding of basic immunological principles.

Dr. Davis received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow and staff fellow at the Laboratory of Immunology at NIH. He became a faculty member in the department of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993, and is now The Burt and Marion Avery Family Professor of Immunology there. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1991, and has been director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection since 2004. Dr. Davis is known for identifying many of the T-cell receptor genes, which are responsible for the ability of these cells to recognize a diverse repertoire of antigens. He has received many honors, including memberships in the National Academy of Science and the Institute of Medicine, the Paul Ehrlich Prize, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholars in Aging Award.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Alena Powell(opens in new window)

Phone

(212) 327-7745(opens in new window)

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745(opens in new window)
apowell@rockefeller.edu(opens in new window)

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=3454(opens in new window)