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American Association of Immunologists

Index American Association of Immunologists

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is a scientific society dedicated to the support of research in immunology. [1]

63 relations: Albert Coons, Alfred Nisonoff, Alphonse Dochez, Alwin Max Pappenheimer Jr., American Medical Association, Arthur Weiss, Baruj Benacerraf, Bethesda, Maryland, Betty Diamond, Charles Janeway, Colin Munro MacLeod, D. Bernard Amos, Dan Littman, David Talmage, Ellen Vitetta, Elvin A. Kabat, Eugene Lindsay Opie, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Frank Horsfall, Frank J. Dixon, Frederick George Novy, Frederick Parker Gay, Hans Zinsser, Harry Eagle, Harvard University, Henry Kunkel, Herman Eisen, Hugh McDevitt, Immunology, Irving Weissman, James P. Allison, John Franklin Enders, Joseph Edward Smadel, Journal Citation Reports, Journal of Immunology, Jules T. Freund, Karl Friedrich Meyer, Karl Landsteiner, Kimishige Ishizaka, Laurie Glimcher, Learned society, Ludvig Hektoen, Marian Koshland, Merrill Chase, Michael Heidelberger, Minneapolis, Oswald Avery, Paul M. Allen, Philippa Marrack, Rebecca Lancefield, ..., Richard Weil, Robert A. Good, Roger M. Perlmutter, Rufus Cole, Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Thomas Francis Jr., Thomas Milton Rivers, Thomson Reuters, Web of Science, Werner and Gertrude Henle, William C. Boyd, William E. Paul, William Hallock Park. Expand index (13 more) »

Albert Coons

Albert Hewett Coons (June 28, 1912 – September 30, 1978) was an American physician, pathologist, and immunologist.

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Alfred Nisonoff

Alfred Nisonoff (1923-2001) was a 20th-century chemist who helped to experimentally determine the molecular structure of the antibody, and, as a result, made major contributions to the field of immunology.

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Alphonse Dochez

Alphonse Raymond Dochez (April 21, 1882 – June 1964) was an American physician and disease researcher.

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Alwin Max Pappenheimer Jr.

Alwin Max Pappenheimer Jr. (November 25, 1908 – March 21, 1995) was an American a biochemist and immunologist.

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American Medical Association

The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of physicians—both MDs and DOs—and medical students in the United States.

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Arthur Weiss

Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Fugitive, Super Friends, The Time Tunnel and Sea Hunt.

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Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self."http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1980 1980 Nobel Medicine Winnershttp://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1980/benacerraf-autobio.html Nobel autobiography His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.

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Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda.

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Betty Diamond

Betty Diamond, a physician and researcher, was born in Hartford, CT on 11 May 1948.

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Charles Janeway

Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1943–2003) was a noted immunologist.

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Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod (January 28, 1909 – February 11, 1972) was a Canadian-American geneticist.

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D. Bernard Amos

Dennis Bernard Amos (April 16, 1923 – May 15, 2003) was a British born American immunologist.

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Dan Littman

Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes.

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David Talmage

David Wilson Talmage (September 15, 1919 – March 6, 2014) was an American immunologist.

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Ellen Vitetta

Ellen S. Vitetta is the director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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Elvin A. Kabat

Elvin Abraham Kabat (September 1, 1914 – June 16, 2000) was an American biomedical scientist and one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry.

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Eugene Lindsay Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie (5 July 1873 – 12 March 1971) was an American physician and pathologist who conducted research on the causes, transmission, and diagnosis of tuberculosis and on immunization against the disease.

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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, abbreviated FASEB, is a non-profit organization that is the principal umbrella organization of U.S. societies in the field of biological and medical research.

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Frank Horsfall

Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. (Seattle, December 14, 1906 – New York City, February 19, 1971) was an American physician specializing in pathology.

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Frank J. Dixon

Frank James Dixon (March 9, 1920 – February 8, 2008) was an biomedical researcher, best known for his research into diseases of the immune system that can damage other organs of the body.

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Frederick George Novy

Frederick George Novy (December 9, 1864 – August 8, 1957) was an American bacteriologist, organic chemist, and instructor.

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Frederick Parker Gay

Frederick Parker Gay (July 22, 1874 – July 14, 1939) was an American bacteriologist who combated typhoid fever and leprosy as well as studied the mechanism of immunity.

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Hans Zinsser

Hans Zinsser (November 17, 1878 – September 4, 1940) was an American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author.

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Harry Eagle

Harry Eagle (born in New York City on 1905; died June 21, 1992) was an American physician and pathologist.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Kunkel

Henry George Kunkel (September 9, 1916 in Brooklyn – 15 December 1983) was an American immunologist, known for his discoveries in basic immunology research, especially his contribution to the development of clinical immunology.

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Herman Eisen

Herman Nathaniel Eisen (1918–2014) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher.

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Hugh McDevitt

Hugh O'Neill McDevitt ForMemRS (born 26 August 1930) is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Immunology

Immunology is a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.

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Irving Weissman

Irving Lerner "Irv" Weissman (born Great Falls, Montana, October 21, 1939) is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine along with Michael Longaker.

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James P. Allison

James P. Allison (born 7 August 1948) is an American immunologist who holds the position of professor and chair of Immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate.

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Joseph Edward Smadel

Joseph Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was a U.S. physician and virologist.

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Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters).

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Journal of Immunology

The Journal of Immunology is a twice monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes basic and clinical studies in all aspects of immunology.

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Jules T. Freund

Jules Freund (June 24, 1890 – April 22, 1960) was a Hungarian born American immunologist, most famous for the Freund's adjuvant.

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Karl Friedrich Meyer

Karl Friedrich Meyer (19 May 1884 – 27 April 1974) was an American scientist of Swiss origin.

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Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner,, (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943) was an Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist.

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Kimishige Ishizaka

is a Japanese scientist who discovered the antibody class IgE in 1966.

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Laurie Glimcher

Laurie Hollis Glimcher is an American physician-scientist who was appointed President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in October 2016.

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Learned society

A learned society (also known as a learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organisation that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts.

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Ludvig Hektoen

Ludvig Hektoen (July 2, 1863 - July 5, 1951) was a noted American pathologist.

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Marian Koshland

Marian Elliott "Bunny" Koshland (October 25, 1921 – October 28, 1997) was an American immunologist who discovered that the differences in amino acid composition of antibodies explains the efficiency and effectiveness with which they combat a huge range of foreign invaders.

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Merrill Chase

Merrill W. Chase (September 17, 1905 – January 5, 2004) was an immunologist working at the Rockefeller University in New York City who is credited with discovering cell-mediated immunology in the early 1940s.

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Michael Heidelberger

Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 – June 25, 1991) was an American immunologist.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Oswald Avery

Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher.

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Paul M. Allen

Paul M. Allen (born September 1951) is an American cellular immunologist and current Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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Philippa Marrack

Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS (born 28 June 1945) is an English biologist, based in the United States, best known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome.

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Rebecca Lancefield

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (January 5, 1895 – March 3, 1981) was a prominent American microbiologist.

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Richard Weil

Richard Weil (born 6 February 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for 1. FC Magdeburg.

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Robert A. Good

Robert Alan Good (May 21, 1922 – June 13, 2003) was an American physician who performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant between persons who were not identical twins and is regarded as a founder of modern immunology.

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Roger M. Perlmutter

Roger M. Perlmutter MD PhD is the executive vice president of Merck & Co. and president of Merck Research Laboratories.

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Rufus Cole

Rufus Cole (April 30, 1872 – April 20, 1966) was an American medical doctor and the first director of the Rockefeller University Hospital.

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Stanhope Bayne-Jones

Stanhope Bayne-Jones, M.D. (November 6, 1888 – February 20, 1970) was a physician, an American bacteriologist, a medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of Brigadier General.

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Thomas Francis Jr.

Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist.

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Thomas Milton Rivers

Thomas Milton Rivers (September 3, 1888 – May 12, 1962) was an American bacteriologist and virologist.

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Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational mass media and information firm.

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Web of Science

Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now maintained by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters), that provides a comprehensive citation search.

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Werner and Gertrude Henle

Werner Henle (August 27, 1910 – July 6, 1987) and Gertrude Henle (April 3, 1912 – September 1, 2006) were a husband and wife team of virologists known for their work in flu vaccines and viral diagnostics.

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William C. Boyd

William Clouser Boyd (March 4, 1903 - February 19, 1983) was an American immunochemist.

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William E. Paul

William Erwin Paul (June 12, 1936 – September 18, 2015) was an American immunologist.

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William Hallock Park

William Hallock Park (December 30, 1863 – April 6, 1939) was an American bacteriologist and laboratory director at the New York City Board of Health, Division of Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection from 1893 to 1936.

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List of the Presidents of the American Association of Immunologists.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Immunologists

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