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The HIV Problem

Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture

  • This event already took place in March 2019
  • Caspary Auditorium

Event Details

Type
Friday Lecture Series
Speaker(s)
Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., senior physician, Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and head, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Speaker bio(s)

Michel C. 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 Nussenzweig was named Sherman Fairchild Professor, and in 2011 he became director of the Christopher Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases. He has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1999.

Nussenzweig has received numerous awards including an American Association of Immunologists-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award, a Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research, a Brazilian Diaspora Award, a Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research, a Robert Koch Award, an AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award, and a Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Open to
Public
Host
Richard Lifton
Reception
Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge
Contact
Justin Sloboda
Phone
(212) 327-7785
Sponsor
Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu


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