In honor of Emil R. Unanue’s 21-year leadership of the Department of Pathology and Immunology, the department is holding a one-day symposium to present innovative immunology research.
Unanue, M.D., the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology, stepped down last summer as chair of the department and remains professor of pathology and immunology.
The symposium, “Immunology at the Horizon of the New Millennium,” will be held April 27 from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Eric P. Newman Education Center Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
Speakers selected to participate in the symposium reflect broad areas of research and acknowledge immunology’s central position in the scientific mission of the University.
The speakers include Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, University of California, San Francisco; Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., and Richard Flavell, Ph.D., both of Yale University School of Medicine; Philippa Marrack, Ph.D., National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver; Staffan Normark, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Klaus Rajewsky, M.D., CBR Institute and Harvard Medical School; and Irving L. Weissman, M.D, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Unanue is internationally recognized as a leader in understanding how the immune system identifies foreign material, or antigen, and how immune system T cells respond to it.
He joined the School of Medicine in 1985 as head of pathology and immunology and pathologist-in-chief of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During his tenure, the University’s immunology program has become one of the most innovative and productive centers in the world for immunological research.
Although a few faculty members with immunology research and clinical interests resided at WUSTL before Unanue took the position, this number has increased due to his recruiting and mentoring efforts and the role model that he established. Today, the University’s immunology community includes more than 50 faculty and 250 trainees in seven different departments.
For more information, contact Sharon Smith at 362-8748.