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14 unusual facts about immunology


Alexandre Beaudoin

After receiving his BSc in microbiology and Immunology of the University of Montreal in 2000, he was hired by the Sûreté du Québec in the Forensic Identification Department as a latent fingerprint development specialist.

Andrew D. Luster

Andrew D. Luster, MD, PhD, is the Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

British Society for Immunology

BSI members work throughout the entire Immunology chain, stretching from the laboratory bench right through to the clinics and hospitals in which patients are treated - from discovery to delivery.

Claudia S. Miller

Claudia S. Miller, M.D., M.S., an allergist and immunologist, is an author, instructor, and scientist noted for research in chemical intolerance, and development of tools for its diagnosis.

James P. Allison

is a world renowned immunologist, and currently holds the position of Professor and Chair of Immunology and the director of Immunotherapy platform at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

James S. Economou

He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is also a surgical oncologist and tumor immunologist.

Maria Leptin

After completing her studies in mathematics and biology at the University of Bonn and the University of Heidelberg, Maria Leptin worked for her PhD at Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland, (1979-1983) studying the B-lymphocytes activation under the supervision of Fritz Melchers.

Peripheral blood mononuclear cell

Many scientists conducting research in the fields of immunology (including auto-immune disorders), infectious disease, hematological malignancies, vaccine development, Transplant Immunology, and high-throughput screening are frequent users of PBMCs.

Pyura pachydermatina

Cells lining the gut of Pyura pachydermatina have been found to contain an insulin-like material in two forms that are immunologically active.

Rashika El Ridi

Rashika Ahmed Fathi El Ridi, a professor of Immunology, Department of Zoology Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

Skejby Sygehus

These clinical specialities are supported and assisted by clinical Biochemistry, Radiology, clinical Physiology & Nuclear medicine, clinical Immunology, Anaesthesiology and clinical Microbiology.

Spanish Society for Immunology

The Spanish Society for Immunology (Sociedad Española de Inmunología, SEI) is a legally recognized professional non-profit organization in Spain, dedicated to promote and support excellence in research, scholarship and clinical practice in immunology

Winifred Ashby

She then took up a Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Immunology and pathology in February 1917, where she stayed a staff member until 1924.

Wissam Constantin

Wissam’s ambition pushed him to go forward to a master’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology.


Andrzej Szczeklik

Szczeklik is a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican and Royal College of Physicians in London, UK (honorary member), American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory Society, International Society of Thrombosis Haemostasis, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Atul Butte

Butte is Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Immunology & Rheumatology.

Avindra Nath

Nath moved to the University of Kentucky in September, 1997, as a member of the Department of Neurology and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Basel Institute for Immunology

The Basel Institute for Immunology (BII) was founded in 1969 as a basic research institute in immunology located at 487 Grenzacherstrasse, Basel, Switzerland on the Rhine River down the street from the main Hoffmann-La Roche campus near the Swiss-German border.

Betty Diamond

In 1976 she began her residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY and in 1979 embarked on post-doctoral fellowship in Immunology with Dr. Matthew Scharff at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Almost 800 members are working for the society in various medical fields as allergy, immunology, Pediatrics, ENT, dermatology and

Carl Franz Robinow

Following formative research experience in Denmark, England, and the U.S. he came to Canada in 1949 and worked in Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.

Clara D. Bloomfield

Dr. Bloomfield is married to Dr. Albert de la Chapelle, a geneticist and professor in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at The Ohio State University and discoverer of XX male syndrome.

Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

The Institute comprises 11 Departments: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genomic Medicine Institute, Immunology, Molecular Cardiology, Molecular Genetics (including the Section of Virology), Neurosciences, Pathobiology, Quantitative Health Sciences, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Deepak Shukla

He is jointly employed by the UIC Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Francesco Dieli

Professor Dieli’s research has covered several aspects of human immunology: delayed-type hypersensitivity responses, immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and cancer immunotherapy.

Gladstone Institutes

Virology and immunology research at Gladstone is focused primarily on three urgent challenges related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic: preventing viral transmission of HIV with drugs or a vaccine for those at risk of coming in contact with the virus, curing the millions of people who already live with HIV and restoring a normal lifespan to those who are HIV-positive—but who are dying earlier than their uninfected counterparts from diseases of aging.

Harald zur Hausen

William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology in 2006 (with Ian Frazer)

History of HIV/AIDS

Non-human SIVs contain a nef gene that down-regulates CD3, CD4, and MHC class I expression; most non-human SIVs, therefore, do not induce immunodeficiency; the HIV-1 nef gene, however, has lost its ability to down-regulate CD3, which results in the immune activation and apoptosis that is characteristic of chronic HIV infection.

John Ilhan

During his lifetime, the Charity's that the Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation was able to contribute towards include: the Richmond Football Club, Kids Under Cover, The Alfred Hospital Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, and Murdoch Children's Research Institute Allergy and Immune Disorders Research Group Department of Allergy and Immunology.

Kiril Bratanov

Between 1943 and 1986, Kiril Bratanov was director of the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction and Development of Organisms at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Kurloff cells

Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy

Laurie Glimcher

Glimcher is Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Leonard Herzenberg

In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in biochemistry with a specialization in immunology for studies on cytochrome in Neurospora.

Niels Kaj Jerne

Jerne developed the "natural selection theory of immunology," proposed by Paul Ehrlich 50 years earlier, although he was missing the clonal selection element proposed by David Talmage and then by Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

Nutritional immunology

Nutritional immunology researchers have discovered novel mechanisms by which naturally occurring compounds such as conjugated linoleic acid, abscisic acid, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, resveratrol, curcumin, limonin, Vitamin E, Vitamin A, and Vitamin D modulate immune responses.

Passive immunity

In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery of an antitoxin-based immunity to diphtheria and tetanus, by Emil Adolf von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō, antitoxin became the first major success of modern therapeutic immunology.

Professor Robert Clancy

Professor Clancy was awarded an AM (Order of Australia) in 2005 for service to cartography as a collector of early maps of Australia, and to the field of immunology.

Robert Peter Gale

From 1973-1993, Gale was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology where he focused on the molecular biology, immunology and treatment of leukemia (with Martin Cline and David Golde).

Steven Krilis

Steven Krilis (born Athens, Greece 26 November 1947) is Professor of Immunology Allergies and Infectious diseases at the University of New South Wales and St George Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Thomas Alexander Evelyn Platts-Mills, FRS (born 1941, Colchester) son of Labour MP and barrister John Platts-Mills, is a British allergy researcher and director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Thomas Tedder

Dr. Tedder (Rocky) is Alter Geller Professor for Research in Immunology and former chair of the Department of Immunology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

William G. Hobbs

The third eldest is an eminent professor of chemical immunology (retired), and his name is John Raymond Hobbs