Richard Flavell, PhD, FRS
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Biography
Dr. Flavell is Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his B.Sc. (Honors) in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1970 in biochemistry from the University of Hull, England, and performed postdoctoral work in Amsterdam (1970-72) with Piet Borst and in Zurich (1972-73) with Charles Weissmann. Before accepting his current position in 1988, Dr. Flavell was first Assistant Professor (equivalent) at the University of Amsterdam (1974-79); then Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London (1979-82); and subsequently President and Chief Scientific Officer of Biogen Research Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1982-88). Dr. Flavell is a fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Academy of Medicine. Richard Flavell uses transgenic and gene-targeted mice to study Innate and Adaptive immunity, T cell tolerance and activation in immunity and autoimmunity,apoptosis, and regulation of T cell differentiation.
Education & Training
- EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. C. WeissmannUniversitat Zurich (1973)
- Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Piet BorstUniversity of Amsterdam (1972)
- PhDHull University (1970)
Activities
- Mouse Model to Evaluate Attenuated Vaccine CandidatesSwitzerland 2008The primary objective of this proposal is to generate a humanized mouse model in which critical components of the human immune system replace the homologous regions of the mouse.
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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The Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science | Vilcek Foundation | 2013 |
The William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology | Cancer Research Institute | 2012 |
Departments & Organizations
- Cancer Immunology
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Diabetes Research Center
- Fellowship Training
- Flavell Lab
- Human and Translational Immunology Program
- Immunobiology
- Immunology
- K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP)
- Liver Center
- Microbiology
- NIH T32 Program
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- Rheumatic Diseases Research Core
- SPORE in Skin Cancer
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
- YCCEH