Richard A Flavell PhD, FRS

Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department Chair, Immunobiology

Biographical Info

"After earning bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in biochemistry at Hull, Flavell did postdoctoral work in the Netherlands and Switzerland and then joined the faculty of the University of Amsterdam. From the Netherlands, he moved to London, where he was head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. Then came an offer to join a commercial enterprise, the biotechnology startup Biogen, in Cambridge, Mass. When then-Yale Dean Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., came looking for someone to head the medical school’s new program in immunobiology, he decided he was ready for a return to academia." excerpt taken from Yale medicine Spring 09 Newsletter

Education & Training

Ph.D.

Hull University (1970)

Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Piet Borst

University of Amsterdam, in the European Programme of the Royal Society of Great Britain (1970 - 1972)

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. C. Weissmann

Universitat Zurich, Institut fur Molekularbiologie (1972 - 1973)