Ira Mellman, Ph.D.

Ira Mellman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and immunology and director of the Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded the Newton-Abraham Visiting Professorship in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Oxford for the 1998-1999 academic year. Dr. Mellman plans to travel to England several times to deliver a series of public and scientific lectures at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Previous recipients of the professorship include James D. Watson, Ph.D.