DOCSLIB.ORG

AAI Councillors Visit Capitol Hill, Extol Value of NIH Research

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
AAI Councillors Visit Capitol Hill, Extol Value of NIH Research In This Issue… 2 Call for 2013 AAI Award Nominations AAI Councillors 3 President’s Message 6 Focus on Public Affairs: Visit Capitol Hill, N NIH Working Groups Extol Value Report on Research Workforce, Diversity of NIH Research N NAS: Government See page 3 Should Pay “Full” Cost of Research N AAI Comments on Proposed NIH Biosketch Changes N NIH Invites CTSA Applications N Bills Would Limit Federal Employee Travel, Conferences N New Resource Highlights NIH Funding Impacts 10 AAI Council Welcomes Wayne Yokoyama 12 Members in the News 15 In Memoriam: N Byron Waksman (Former AAI President) N Fionula Brennan N Norman Letvin N Robert Stout 20 AAI Re-Names Award in Honor of Ralph Steinman 21 Update: AAI High School Teachers Program 21 AAI Launches New Trainee Member Award 22 2012 AAI Immunology Course Highlights 26 AAI Extends Outreach Program, Support 28 2012–2013 AAI Committee Rosters 32 Grant & Award Deadlines 36 Meetings Calendar >ÊvÀÊÓä£ÎÊÜ>À`Ê >Ìà Deadline: November 1, 2012 Nominations are invited for the following AAI Career Awards. These awards honor immunologists of extraordinary scientific achievement and promise. ÊiLiÀÃtÊ ½ÌÊÃÃÊÌ iÊ««ÀÌÕÌÞÊÌÊ>ÌiÊ>ÊÜÀÌ ÞÊVi>}ÕiÊvÀÊ>Ü>À`ÃÊ Ì >ÌÊ>ÀiÊ>}ÊÌ iÊi>`}Ê«ÀviÃÃ>Ê ÀÃÊ«ÀiÃiÌi`Ê>Õ>ÞÊÌÊÕ}ÃÌÃt AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award / ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV}âiÃÊ>ÊÃiÀÊÃViÌÃÌÊÜ Ê >ÃÊÃ}wV>ÌÞÊyÕiVi`ÊÌ iÊ«ÀviÃÃ>Ê`iÛi«iÌÊ >`ÊV>ÀiiÀÃÊvÊ>ÊiÜÊ}iiÀ>Ì°ÊÊ ÀÃÊÌ iÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV«i̽ÃÊVÌÀLÕÌÃÊÌÊÌ iÊ«ÀviÃÃÊ Ì ÀÕ} ÊÕÌÃÌ>`}ÊiÌÀ}°Ê/ iÊ>Ü>À`ÊVÕ`iÃÊ>Ê«>µÕi]ÊiiÌ}ÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>Ì]Ê>`ÊÌÀ>ÛiÊ ÃÕ««ÀÌÊÌÊÌ iÊÊ>Õ>ÊiiÌ}°Ê/ ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÃÊ«ÀiÃiÌi`Ê>ÌÊ>ÊÜ>À`ÃÊ*ÀiÃiÌ>ÌÊ*À}À>Ê >ÌÊÌ iÊÊ>Õ>ÊiiÌ}° AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research / ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV}âiÃÊ>Ê`Û`Õ>ÊÜ Ê >ÃÊ>`iÊÃ}wV>ÌÊVÌÀLÕÌÃÊÌÊÌ iÊÕ`iÀÃÌ>`}Ê vÊÕiÊ«ÀViÃÃiÃÊÕ`iÀÞ}Ê Õ>Ê`Ãi>ÃiÊ«>Ì }iiÃÃ]Ê«ÀiÛiÌ]ÊÀÊÌ iÀ>«Þ°Ê/ iÊ>Ü>À`Ê ÀiV«iÌÊÜÊÀiViÛiÊ>Êfx]äääÊV>à Ê>Ü>À`]ÊiiÌ}ÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>Ì]Ê>`ÊÌÀ>ÛiÊÃÕ««ÀÌÊÌÊÌ iÊÊ>Õ>Ê iiÌ}°Ê/ iÊÀiV«iÌÊÜÊ«ÀiÃiÌÊ ÃÊÀÊ iÀÊÀiÃi>ÀV ÊÊ>Ê>Ü>À`ÊiVÌÕÀi° AAI-Life Technologies Meritorious Career Award / ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV}âiÃÊ>Ê`V>ÀiiÀÊÃViÌÃÌÊvÀÊÕÌÃÌ>`}ÊÀiÃi>ÀV ÊVÌÀLÕÌÃÊÌÊÌ iÊwi`Ê vÊÕ}Þ°Ê/ iÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV«iÌÊÜÊÀiViÛiÊ>Êf£ä]äääÊV>à Ê>Ü>À`]ÊiiÌ}ÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>Ì]Ê>`Ê ÌÀ>ÛiÊÃÕ««ÀÌÊÌÊÌ iÊÊ>Õ>ÊiiÌ}ÊvÀÊ«ÀiÃiÌ>ÌÊvÊ ÃÊÀÊ iÀÊÀiÃi>ÀV ÊÊ>Ê>Ü>À`ÊiVÌÕÀiÊ «ÀiVi`i`ÊLÞÊÌ iÊ>Ü>À`Ê«ÀiÃiÌ>Ì°Ê/ ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÃÊ}iiÀÕÃÞÊÃÕ««ÀÌi`ÊÌ ÀÕ} Ê>Ê}À>ÌÊvÀÊviÊ /iV }iÃÊ À«À>Ì° AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award / ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÀiV}âiÃÊ>Êi>ÀÞV>ÀiiÀÊÛiÃÌ}>ÌÀÊÜ Ê >ÃÊ>`iÊÕÌÃÌ>`}ÊVÌÀLÕÌÃÊ ÌÊÌ iÊwi`ÊvÊÕ}Þ°Ê/ iÊ>Ü>À`iiÊÜÊÀiViÛiÊ>Êfx]äääÊV>à ʫÀâi]ÊiiÌ}ÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>Ì]Ê >`ÊÌÀ>ÛiÊÃÕ««ÀÌÊÌÊÌ iÊÊ>Õ>ÊiiÌ}ÊvÀÊ«ÀiÃiÌ>ÌÊvÊ ÃÊÀÊ iÀÊÀiÃi>ÀV ÊÊ>Ê>Ü>À`Ê iVÌÕÀiÊ«ÀiVi`i`ÊLÞÊÌ iÊ>Ü>À`Ê«ÀiÃiÌ>Ì°Ê/ ÃÊ>Ü>À`ÊÃÊ}iiÀÕÃÞÊÃÕ««ÀÌi`ÊÌ ÀÕ} Ê>Ê}À>ÌÊ vÀÊ Ê ÃViVið ÀÊV«iÌiÊÊ >ÀiiÀÊÜ>À`Ê>ÌÊ`iÌ>Ã]Ê>ÃÊÜiÊ>ÃÊvÀ>ÌÊ Ê>««Þ}ÊvÀÊÊ/À>ÛiÊÜ>À`ÃÊ>`ÊÀ>ÌÃ]ÊÛÃÌÊÜÜÜ°°À}ÉÜ>À`Ã. The 2013 AAI Awards will be presented in conjunction with IMMUNOLOGY 2013™ÊUÊ/ iÊ iÌi>Ê iiLÀ>ÌÊvÊÊ­££ÎqÓä£Î® >ÞÊÎqÇ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊÕÕ]Ê>Ü> Questions? Contact AAI at 301-634-7178 or [email protected] AAI PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. AAI President, July 2012–June 2013 Holden Professor of Cancer Biology Departments of Microbiology and Internal Medicine The American Association University of Iowa of Immunologists It is my great pleasure and honor to serve the community 9650 Rockville Pike of immunologists as AAI president in this, the 100th Bethesda, MD 20814-3994 anniversary year of The American Association of Tel: 301-634-7178 Immunologists (AAI). Many of us have ”grown up” as Fax: 301-634-7887 scientists in AAI, publishing our work in The Journal of E-mail: [email protected] Immunology (The JI) and presenting our newest results at Gail A. Bishop www.aai.org the annual AAI meeting. AAI has a long and highly successful history of promoting immunology and advancing the careers of its many members. Highlights of that Member Services history will be on view at the upcoming 2013 AAI meeting. AAI now enjoys the Tel: 301-634-7195 work and insights of its own staff historian, John Emrich, who will provide us with E-mail: [email protected] a valuable perspective on the development of the field of immunology, its leaders, The Journal of Immunology and its innovators. Tel: 301-634-7197 But what does AAI do for you today? Why should you join AAI or renew your E-mail: [email protected] membership? For most of us, research dollars are in shrinking supply, and for many, www.jimmunol.org/ household dollars are constrained as well. So why spend precious funds on AAI membership? My many years of association with various aspects of AAI have greatly Council impressed me with the caliber of our society. This can be credited in large part to the President dedication, resourcefulness, and creativity shown by AAI Executive Director Michele Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. Hogan and the AAI staff. They all work incredibly hard to promote immunology and Vice President collaborate with us to address the challenges we face. Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. Foremost among these is undoubtedly the difficult research funding situation. Past President It was sobering to reread the president’s messages of my distinguished and able Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. predecessors, from whom I’ve learned a great deal. In 2003, Laurie Glimcher warned of possible “smaller increases” in the NIH budget, which Suzy Swain (2004–05) Secretary-Treasurer warned “may even decline,” while Lewis Lanier (2006–07) and Art Weiss (2008–09) Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. expressed concern that success rates for investigator-initiated grants might drop as Councillors low as 12–14 percent! Paul Allen (2005–06) predicted the possibility that “big science” Linda A. Sherman, Ph.D. could become more dominant in NIH-funded projects at the expense of investigator- Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. initiated projects. All this and more has come to pass, and we now face a crisis in Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. research support that impacts all aspects of the scientific community. Promising and Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D. important research projects are being lost in large numbers. The new generation Ex Officio Councillors of scientists—so important for the success of future advances in research and its Jeremy M. Boss, Ph.D. translation to better health—is considering other occupations. There are clearly no M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. simple answers to these challenges. As your president, I would like to promote several Leo Lefrançois, Ph.D. areas where we can work together, with the help of AAI, to preserve opportunity for Paul E. Love, M.D., Ph.D. scientific progress—today and in the future—even in the face of difficult times. Executive Director Advocacy M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. The first is for each of us to take the initiative to advocate for the importance of www.aai.org/ immunology research. In recent years, some of the legislators on Capitol Hill who About/Departments-Staff are most passionate about biomedical research have retired or been defeated in elections by opponents with little interest in research. Some in Congress even have a fundamental hostility toward science and openly ridicule funded, peer-reviewed research because they don’t understand the project titles. There are, however, still many in Congress, on both sides of the aisle, who value the NIH and health-related research. We should keep in mind that every member of Congress has had friends and family members who have suffered from diseases in which the immune system www.aai.org AAI Newsletter 3 AAI PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE plays a role. We as scientists have often underestimated Scientific Citizenship the critical need to explain—clearly and often—the A third important objective for me is to enhance the value and long-term importance of our research to participation of my fellow immunologists in both scientific our legislators and other nonscientists. Our fellow citizenship and dialogue, including national committees voters need to know why their tax dollars should be that bring forward new ideas to improve the scientific used to support scientific research, and our elected community, service in the scientific review process, and representatives especially need to hear, in concise and effective sharing of ideas to improve the impact of our understandable language, how our research benefits our efforts in scientific research. The current funding climate nation. While each of us bears the ultimate responsibility has increased our stress and workloads. But if we allow to advocate for biomedical research, AAI facilitates our all that grant-writing to isolate us from fellow scientists, efforts and the AAI Committee on Public Affairs (CPA) or disappointment in unfunded applications to embitter takes every opportunity to advocate on our behalf. AAI us, we lose much more than research dollars, we lose the Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs Lauren collegiality, broader sense of purpose, and “big-picture” Gross, who advises this committee, is eager to work perspective that is so essential to driving scientific with any of you to arrange a visit to your congressional progress. We all want the best possible reviewers for our representatives when you are in Washington, D.C.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Newsletter
    Volume 1, Issue 4 2010 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Inside this issue: Newsletter Department Admin News 2 History and Future of 3-4 Immunology Letter from the Chair Dr. Sally Self Faculty Highlight: Dr. Sha 4 Bethesda System Report- 5-8 ing and Thyroid Cytology Dr. Mariam Alsharif Pathology Research Day 9 Dr. Lisa Cunningham Good News -- Subspecialty Sign-Out is Here! Faculty Highlights: Drs. 10 For a long time now, MUSC’s Pathologists have aligned themselves Sun and Eberts along clinical service lines, providing diagnostic consultations and subspe- Laboratory Services High- 11 light: Nancy Reilly Dixon cialty Tumor Boards and Clinical Conferences. Taking this a step further, New North Area Site and 11 the same pathologists are now providing subspecialty-specific diagnostic Laboratory Dr. Rick Nolte and Melanie Oswald interpretations for the majority of our clinical specimens: biopsy, routine, Research Division Update 12 and consultation cases. Overall, this should result in faster turn-around Dr. Brad Schulte time, greater clinician satisfaction, better patient care, improvement in the 2010 Annual Service 13 quality of diagnostic information provided in the pathology report, and in- creased incorporation of tumor-specific molecular testing results directed Chief Resident’s Page and 14 Resident Spotlight toward prognosis and planning individualized, patient-specific treatment Upcoming Meetings and 15 modalities for each malignancy. Seminar in Pathology Conference Schedule The subspecialty sign-out services include: breast, gastrointestinal and pulmonary resections, gastrointestinal and liver biopsies, interstitial lung disease, kidney, heart, transplant pathology, bone marrow/aspirates, lymph nodes, dermatopathology, placenta, cytology/fine needle aspiration, neuropathology, muscle biopsies, head and neck (ENT), thyroid and para- thyroid, and ophthalmology.
    [Show full text]
  • Robert Timmons Mccluskey Robert T
    Robert Timmons McCluskey Robert T. McCluskey, a pioneer in the field of immunopathology, died June 29, 2006 at the age of 83. He was the Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and former Pathologist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. McCluskey (“Mac”) was born January 16, 1923 in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was raised with his older brother Donald. He received his A.B. degree from Yale in 1944 and his M.D. degree from New York University (NYU) in 1947. His training in pathology at King’s County and Bellevue Hospitals was followed by military service in Germany. He returned as a faculty member in Pathology at the NYU School of Medicine under the direction of Lewis Thomas, who had created one of the premier pathology departments. It was here that Mac met future Nobel Laureate Baruj Benacerraf, who became a lifelong friend. Other notables at NYU at the time were Stuart Schlossman, Gloria Gallo, and Chandler Stetson. Mac’s career blossomed and in 1962 he was appointed Professor of Pathology and Director of the Laboratories at NYU. In 1968 he was recruited to be Chairman of Pathology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he met Giuseppe Andres, who became a close friend and collaborator. In 1971 Benacerraf attracted Mac to Boston with his wife Jean and children James and Anne, to become the S. Burt Wolbach Professor and Chairman of Pathology at Children’s Hospital. Here he again crystallized a strong immunopathology group including Atul Bhan, Eveline Schneeberger and Bernard Collins, all of whom stayed with him throughout the rest of his career.
    [Show full text]
  • A Synoptic Viewof the Historyof APHA Awards
    Public Health Then and Now A Synoptic View of the History of APHA Awards (1885-1977) M. ALLEN POND, MPH Introduction nounced in December 1885. A year earlier, Civil War hero, Captain Henry Lomb, a distinguished citizen Qf Rochester, Public recognition of extraordinary accomplishment by New York, and co-founder with John J. Bausch of the opti- individuals takes many forms. Historically, sovereigns have cal firm that to this day bears their names, had offered to bestowed non-hereditary titles on subjects for outstanding underwrite "prizes in relation to investigations bearing on service to their country. Medals for bravery have for cen- public health."1 Lomb was prepared to provide up to turies been tangible expressions of gratitude by nations large $2,000* for this purpose (it turned out later to be $2,800), and and small. Cash awards-for example, the Nobel Prizes-for proposed that essays be prepared in open competition on unique contributions to knowledge or productivity have sig- four topics: naled worldwide appreciation in recent years. Awards for 1. Healthy Homes and Foods for the Working Classes; excellence are a principal hallmark of every professional so- 2. The Sanitary Conditions and Necessities of School- ciety and trade association, and the American Public Health. Houses and School-Life; Association is no exception. 3. Disinfectants and Prophylaxis against Infectious Dis- eases; and 4. The Preventable Causes of Disease, Injury and The Lomb Prizes Death in American Manufactories and Workshops, and the Best Means and Appliances for Preventing and Avoiding The Association's earliest involvement in recognizing Them. distinguished service seems to have been embodied in the It is not clear what stimulated Lomb to make the offer, Lomb Prizes for essays, the first winners of which were an- but his timing is of interest.
    [Show full text]
  • Albert Coons
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES A L B E R T H E W E T T C OONS 1912—1978 A Biographical Memoir by HU gh O . M CDEVITT Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoir COPYRIGHT 1996 NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS WASHINGTON D.C. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical School Countway Library ALBERT HEWETT COONS June 28, 1912–September 30, 1978 BY HUGH O. MCDEVITT LBERT COONS, professor in the Department of Bacteriol- Aogy and Immunology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, died September 30, 1978, at the age of sixty-six. He was born in Gloversville, New York, on June 28, 1912, the son of Albert S. and Marion (Hewett) Coons. He was educated in Gloversville public schools, graduated from Williams Col- lege in 1933, and received the M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1937. He initiated a major revolution in immunology and cell biology that continues to this day by developing the immu- nofluorescent technique for labeling specific antibodies with fluorescent dyes, thus permitting the detection of antibod- ies, antigens, and virtually any antigenic protein in cells and tissues. Fluorescent and immunohistochemical local- ization of foreign and self-proteins through the use of la- beled antibodies is now an indispensable research tool in almost every field of biomedical research and continues to contribute to major new discoveries in all of these fields. The development of the fluorescent antibody technique in the early 1940s was a technical tour de force that required Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Ebert Robert Ebert Served with Distinction As Dean of Harvard’S Faculty of Medicine for Twelve Years, from 1965 to 1977
    Robert Higgins Ebert Robert Ebert served with distinction as Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine for twelve years, from 1965 to 1977. These were tumultuous times in which many, including medical students, were questioning previous approaches to education in an atmosphere in which authority generally was under great suspicion. Meanwhile the University, and the nation as a whole, were plagued by uncertainty and division during the closing years of the Vietnam war. Dr. Ebert’s seasoned approach, calm demeanor, and warm personality served Harvard well during these demanding years. Dr. Ebert was born on September 10, 1914 in Minneapolis. When he was still young, the family moved to Chicago where his father, having trained in medicine in Minneapolis, pursued advanced work in dermatology, later becoming a distinguished professor of dermatology at Rush Medical College and the University of Illinois. Undoubtedly the parent was an important influence on the development and career choices of his two sons, both of whom followed him into medicine. Ebert’s early education took place at the Laboratory School of the University of Chicago and at its High School. From there, he went on to attend the University of Chicago as an undergraduate, receiving his Bachelor of Science in 1936. Engaging in various aspects of college life beyond the classroom, he seemed to have a special talent for dramatic presentations, an interest which had continued from his high school years where he had been president of the dramatic club. His brother, Richard, suspected that his experience in drama stood him in good stead later when he was called upon to make presentations to all kinds of groups, sometimes in unpredictable circumstances.
    [Show full text]
  • Rats, Lice, and Zinsser Gerald Weissmann*
    ANOTHER DIMENSION Rats, Lice, and Zinsser Gerald Weissmann* ike many of my col- ble for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life Lleagues in academic history of TYPHUS FEVER,” Rats, Lice and History medicine, I caught my became an international critical and commercial success. first whiff of science Zinsser’s romp through the ancient and modern worlds from popular books describes how epidemics devastated the Byzantines under about men and Justinian, put Charles V atop the Holy Roman Empire, microbes. By the time stopped the Turks at the Carpathians, and turned we had finished high Napoleon’s Grand Armée back from Moscow. He explains school, most of us had how the louse, the ubiquitous vector of typhus, was for read and often reread most of human history an inevitable part of existence, “like Paul de Kruif’s Microbe baptism, or smallpox”; its habitat extended from hovel to Hunters; Sinclair Lewis’ throne. And after that Murder in the Cathedral, the vectors Arrowsmith; and Rats, deserted Thomas à Becket: “The archbishop was murdered Lice and History by in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth Hans Zinsser. It’s hard of December [1170]. The body lay in the Cathedral all nowadays to reread the night, and was prepared for burial on the following day…. work of de Kruif or He had on a large brown mantle; under it, a white surplice; Sinclair Lewis without a below that, a lamb’s-wool coat; then another woolen coat; chuckle or two over their Figure. Hans Zinsser (1878–1940), and a third woolen coat below this; under this, there was quaint locution, but author of Rats, Lice and History.
    [Show full text]
  • Rats, Lice, and Zinsser Gerald Weissmann*
    Subscription Information for ANOTHER DIMENSION Rats, Lice, and Zinsser Gerald Weissmann* ike many of my col- ble for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life Lleagues in academic history of TYPHUS FEVER,” Rats, Lice and History medicine, I caught my became an international critical and commercial success. first whiff of science Zinsser’s romp through the ancient and modern worlds from popular books describes how epidemics devastated the Byzantines under about men and Justinian, put Charles V atop the Holy Roman Empire, microbes. By the time stopped the Turks at the Carpathians, and turned we had finished high Napoleon’s Grand Armée back from Moscow. He explains school, most of us had how the louse, the ubiquitous vector of typhus, was for read and often reread most of human history an inevitable part of existence, “like Paul de Kruif’s Microbe baptism, or smallpox”; its habitat extended from hovel to Hunters; Sinclair Lewis’ throne. And after that Murder in the Cathedral, the vectors Arrowsmith; and Rats, deserted Thomas à Becket: “The archbishop was murdered Lice and History by in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth Hans Zinsser. It’s hard of December [1170]. The body lay in the Cathedral all nowadays to reread the night, and was prepared for burial on the following day…. work of de Kruif or He had on a large brown mantle; under it, a white surplice; Sinclair Lewis without a below that, a lamb’s-wool coat; then another woolen coat; chuckle or two over their Figure. Hans Zinsser (1878–1940), and a third woolen coat below this; under this, there was quaint locution, but author of Rats, Lice and History.
    [Show full text]
  • Robert T. Mccluskey, on Sabbatical in England, 1960 the Weekly Friday Scientifi C Lectures at the MBL Or the Annual Immunology Course Organized by Chairman, Dr
    Chapter Robert Timmons McCluskey (1923–2006) Robert B. Colvin obert Timmons McCluskey (fi gures and German literature, receiving his A.B. degree R 14.1 and 14.2) was born on January 16, 1923, in 1944 under an accelerated program to pre- in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Charles pare undergraduates for World War II. Summer Ayling McCluskey, and his mother, Lora M. classes, reduced vacations, and enrollment in the Timmons, met in France during World War I. Navy’s ROTC were the orders of the day. Charles was a civil engineer laying telephone Dr. McCluskey obtained his M.D. degree from cable in the battlefi elds. Lora, a registered nurse, New York University (NYU) in 1947, where he was assigned to the Army ambulance service. was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medi- Th ey married in New York in 1919 and settled in cal honor society. From 1947 to 1950 he trained the Morris Cove area of New Haven, surrounded as a pathology intern and resident at King’s by various members of the McCluskey clan. County Hospital in Brooklyn, which was affi li- Robert, as he was known in the family (“Mac” ated with the Long Island College of Medicine or “Bob” to colleagues and friends), grew up (now Downstate Medical Center). He wanted climbing the rock formations in Fort Hale Park to learn basic pathology, since the department at and exploring the Peabody Museum on Satur- NYU was focused on immunology. Jean Oliver, days with his older brother, Donald. Favorite the chair of the department at King’s County, bedtime stories were readings of Don Quixote by was well known for his experimental studies of their father.
    [Show full text]
  • Immunopathology Atul K
    Chapter Immunopathology Atul K. Bhan, Robert B. Colvin, and Harold F. Dvorak he application of immunology to clini- and when, beginning in the 1980s, the unit rap- Tcal medicine and the development of immu- idly implemented diagnostic immunohistochem- nopathology as a specialized fi eld stem largely from istry into the routine diagnostic service; and (3) the pioneering work of the great immunologist/ from 1991 to the present, when the unit contin- pathologist Paul Ehrlich, who received the 1908 ued to develop new immunological diagnostic Noble Prize for his work on immune responses in tests and conduct basic research. infection (1). Th e introduction of immunofl uo- rescence techniques by Dr. Albert Coons in the Early Years: Before 1940s set the stage for establishment of immu- Th e earliest manifestations of the then-nascent nohistochemical techniques and development of fi eld of immunopathology at MGH were the fl ow cytometric analysis of cells. Dr. Coons, who studies of Dr. Louis Dienes, a bacteriologist who had been trained in internal medicine at the Mas- was recruited to the Pathology department in 1930 sachusetts General Hospital (MGH), performed (see fi gure 21.3; chapters 5 and 21). He showed that most of his work at Harvard Medical School simple proteins (ovalbumin) could elicit a “tuber- (HMS), initially in the Department of Microbi- culin reaction” in the skin if the animal (guinea ology and Immunology and later in the Pathology pig) had previously been sensitized by inoculation Department. Over the years, immunopathology of the protein into a tuberculous lesion (2). At the has applied the knowledge obtained from basic time only products of organisms were thought to immunology research to achieve a better under- trigger this type of response, termed a delayed- standing of disease pathogenesis, develop sophis- type hypersensitivity reaction and later shown ticated tests for accurate clinical diagnosis, and to be a T cell mediated reaction.
    [Show full text]
  • History of the Northeast Branch (PDF)
    INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This historical review of microbiology in the Northeast Branch has been compiled in honor of the ASM Centennial and is dedicated to all microbiologists in the Branch committed to the microbiological sciences. In it you will find a reprinting of the Volume I (up to 1970) and updates and additions in the Volume II (up to 1999). The names of some departments at colleges and universities have changed from Microbiology to Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics or any combination thereof. Regardless of the department title, microbiological sciences help us to better understand ourselves and our world and the study of the microbial community can lead us to beneficial applications for the environment, the industry, and for the health and well-being of all. Biotechnology companies are producing new and improved healthcare products and pharmaceutical companies are acquiring are making arrangements with biotechnology firms to facilitate the development of new medicines. Hospitals have merged to become healthcare systems and some hospital laboratories are performing of providing more and more molecular diagnostic tests. It has been a tough time in healthcare with the merges and managed care organizations, but a very exciting time in microbiology. One needs only to read the newspaper and the reports in ASM News to see the announcement of the defenses and of new applications. This past century began with the excitement around a new human tissue culture technique used to isolate the polio virus which opened the way for the isolation of many other viruses in a very short time. As we leave this half century and this millennium, we are excited about the diverse role of microorganisms in molecular biology and genetics and in the development of new technologies.
    [Show full text]