Barry R. Bloom

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Barry R. Bloom (born April 13, 1937 in Philadelphia ) is an American immunologist and expert on global health issues.

life and work

Bloom studied biology at Amherst College (bachelor's degree in 1958) and received his PhD in immunology from Rockefeller University in 1963 . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Wright Fleming Institute in London. He then became a professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville . From 1973 he was a professor and from 1978 to 1990 he was head of the Faculty of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. From 1990 he became a scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and at the same time on the Advisory Board of the National Research Council. From 1998 he was Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) at Harvard Universitywhat he stayed until 2008. He is the Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Public Health and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.

Among other things, he researched cell mediated immunity , virus- lymphocyte interaction, tuberculosis, leprosy and vaccines. He is in demand internationally as an expert on vaccinations and global health issues.

From 1971 he advised the WHO on immunological questions, was a member of their Advisory Committee on Health Research and he was a member of their committees for leprosy and tuberculosis. Currently (2010) he chairs the Malaria Advisory Committee (Technical and Research Advisory Committee to the Global Program on Malaria).

He is a member of the US AIDS Research Committee and chaired the UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee (the United Nations AIDS Committee), where in 2009 he was behind a new UNAIDS and WHO initiative to develop and test vaccines against AIDS. He was also involved in the debate on related ethical issues.

Bloom was also an advisor to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an advisor to the Wellcome Trust.

He was the founding president of the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea, which aims to promote vaccines for children in the developing world.

In 1978 he was an advisor to the US President on international health issues.

In 1999 he received the Robert Koch Medal and in 1984 the Alexandre Besredka Prize for Immunology from the Immunity and Environment Foundation. In 1994 he received the John Enders Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America, the 1998 Novartis Award in Immunology, and he received the first Bristol-Myers-Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases. In 1990 he received an honorary doctorate from Amherst College. In 1985/86 he was President of the American Association of Immunologists and also President of the Federation of American Societies in Experimental Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (and its Institute of Medicine), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not via antibodies or the complement system , but via cells of the immune system such as macrophages , killer T cells and their cytokines
  2. ↑ Press release from UNAIDS 2000 WHO and UNAIDS join forces to launch HIV vaccine initiative ( Memento of November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Bloom The Highest Attainable Standard: Ethical Issues in AIDS Vaccines , Science, Volume 279, 1998, p. 186
  4. ↑ The namesake
personal data
SURNAME Bloom, Barry R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia