The HIV Vaccine Problem
Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture
Event Details
- Type
- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., Sherman Fairchild Professor, senior physician, and head, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Nussenzweig’s lab combines a variety of techniques from biochemistry and molecular biology with gene targeting and transgenic technologies to get an atomic-level look at the workings of the immune system. His research on adaptive immunity focuses on B lymphocytes and antibodies, and his work on innate immunity focuses on dendritic cells. Dr. Nussenzweig has provided important insights into how autoimmune diseases develop and has created methods that target specific antigens to dendritic cells, which may lead to both vaccines against pathogens and treatments for autoimmunity.
Dr. Nussenzweig received his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 from The Rockefeller University, where he studied under Ralph M. Steinman, and his M.D. in 1982 from the New York University School of Medicine. He continued his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, first as an intern and resident in internal medicine from 1982 to 1985 and then as a clinical fellow in infectious diseases from 1984 to 1985. In 1986 he began his postdoctoral research in genetics at Harvard Medical School and returned to Rockefeller in 1990 as assistant professor. He was named associate professor in 1994 and professor and senior physician in 1996. In 2000 Dr. Nussenzweig was named Sherman Fairchild Professor. He has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1999.
Dr. Nussenzweig was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Institute of Medicine in 2009. He received the Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research in 2008, the American Association of Immunologists-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award in 2004 and the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award for Basic Science from New York University in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Open to
- Public
- Reception
- Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge
- Contact
- Gloria Phipps
- Phone
- (212) 327-8967
- Sponsor
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Gloria Phipps
(212) 327-8967
phippsg@rockefeller.edu