Howard C. Goodman

Howard Charles Goodman (* 1920 ; † February 6, 1998 in Key Colony Beach, Florida ) was an American immunologist and tropical medicine.

Goodman studied biology at Harvard University and medicine at Johns Hopkins University (MD degree in 1944). He was the director of clinical immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. In 1963 he became director of the newly created immunology department at WHO , built immunological training centers around the world and headed the WHO program against tropical diseases. From 1977 until his retirement in 1985 he was director of the Tropical Medicine Center at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1992 he received the Robert Koch Medal with Piet Borst .

He was married with two daughters and a son.

Fonts

with Agabian, Nogueira (editor) Molecular strategies of parasitic invasion , New York 1987 (Proc. MacArthur Foundation, UCLA Symposium)

Web links

Godal, Goodman, Lucas Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, WHO 1998, pdf, with obituary from the WHO

Individual evidence

^ Notice of death in the Alumni Notes of Johns Hopkins , notice of death in Harvard University

personal data
SURNAME	Goodman, Howard C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Goodman, Howard Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1920
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1998
Place of death	Florida , United States

[1] Notice of death in the Alumni Notes of Johns Hopkins , notice of death in Harvard University