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Jordan S. Pober, M.D. ’77, Ph.D. ’77, has been appointed the inaugural Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine. Pober is an authority on the interrelations of vascular endothelial cells (which form the lining of blood vessels), inflammation, and immunity. His research aims to advance organ replacement therapy, tissue engineering, and regeneration of injured tissues.

Bayer, a global enterprise in the fields of health care, nutrition, and high-tech materials, established the professorship to recognize its shared goals with the School of Medicine: to improve and speed up the translation and delivery of fundamental scientific discoveries in human health from the laboratory into the clinic; and to engage in innovative and collaborative research, with the broader goal of delivering improved patient care.

Pober is director of the medical school’s Human and Translational Immunology Program and vice-chair of the Department of Immunobiology. Pober founded the Vascular Biology and Transplantation program, the medical school’s first interdisciplinary program in translational medicine, in 1999. He has been honored as a Searle Scholar, an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and a MERIT awardee of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.