Richard A Flavell PhD, FRS
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Department Chair, Immunobiology
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Immunology: Computational ImmunologyStem 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
Liver Center
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
T32 Mentors
Immunology and Immunotherapy
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
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Education
- Ph.D., Hull University , 1970
Selected Publication
- Zenewicz LA, Abraham C, Flavell RA, Cho JH. Unraveling the genetics of autoimmunity. Cell 140:791-797 (2010).
Articles
Autumn 2005
A mouse offers a new way to test vaccines
The laboratory mouse—resilient, easy to breed and ideally suited to the genetic manipulations that form the basis of...
Spring 2007
Two decades after its founding, immunobiology becomes a department
Ever since Edward Jenner injected a young English boy with cowpox virus in the 1790s to prevent smallpox, scientists...
Winter 2007
Immunobiologist named to IOM
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, and chair of immunobiology was named to the Institute...
Winter 2003
Three professors, authorities in genetics and immunology, receive Sterling honor
Three faculty members at the School of Medicine have been named to Sterling chairs, one of the university’s highest...
Autumn 2002
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D.
The National Academy of Sciences announced in April the election of its new members and foreign associates in...
Spring 2008
Richard Flavell, Ph.D.
Richard Flavell, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology, received the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize and Lectureship in...
Spring 2009
How a rock 'n' roll scientist built a better mouse
By inserting human genes into mice, Richard Flavell and his team are creating a mouse with a working human immune...
Winter 2003
The big move
Relocating 91 laboratories, a magnetic resonance center and the medical school’s teaching facilities across Congress...
Spring 2002
The toll road
In science, an idea can lie dormant for a century and then enjoy a fantastic rebirth. That’s what happened when Charlie...
Winter/Spring 1998
Music and medicine
What was the first human music? A whistled imitation of a bird call? A rhythmic pounding that mimicked a heartbeat or...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
The mouse that roared
Once the stuff of myth and science fiction, the transgenic mouse, first created at Yale, has conquered the world of...
Spring 1999
Yale-created Lyme vaccine hits the market
LYMErix, a vaccine against Lyme disease based on Yale research licensed to SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, received...
Fall 1998
Lyme disease vaccines prove effective
Clinical trials conducted at Yale over the past two years have proven the effectiveness of two Lyme disease...
Fall 1998
A new strategy for stroke and Alzheimer’s?
Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that blocking an enzyme known to be involved in cell death could help...
