Department History:  The Department of Immunology at Duke University Medical Center was established in 1992, but its foundations were laid 30 years earlier.  In 1962, Barnes Woodhall, the new Dean of the School of Medicine , “Connie” Gardner, Acting Chair of the Department of Surgery, and Phillip Handler, Chair of Biochemistry and later President of the National Academy of Science, recruited D. Bernard Amos, a tumor immunogeneticist, to Duke from Roswell Park Memorial Institute.  They wished to establish an immunogenetics research program that would enhance research in the Department of Surgery and provide the immunology support needed for a new kidney transplantation program.  > more

 

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Announcements:  Three new Assistant Professors have been added to our team of oustanding facutly:  Drs. Qi-Jing Li (Stanford University), Shyam Unniraman (Yale University) and Mari Shinohara (Harvard University).

Awards:  Dr. Mary Louise Markert has been chosen as the recipient of the 2008 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.  Dr. Robert Lefkowitz will be presented the National Medical of Science Award by President George W. Bush.  Dr. H. Kim Lyerly has been appointed by President Bush to the National Cancer Advisory Board. 

 

News Stories:  Dr. Mary Louise Markert's research gives a child new life. 

 

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