Richard A Flavell PhD, FRS

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

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Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology: Computational Immunology

Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Niche and Homing | Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Cell Symmetry

Cancer Immunology

Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program

Immunobiology: Lymphocyte Development

Parasitology Program

Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale

Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center

T32 Mentors

Immunology and Immunotherapy

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Biography

"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