Hugh McDevitt

Hugh O'Neill McDevitt (born August 26, 1930 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American immunologist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford , California .

Life

McDevitt earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University in Stanford , California in 1952 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in Boston , Massachusetts in 1955 . Between 1955 and 1957 he worked as an intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and at the Bellevue Hospital in New York City , New York , before serving in the US Army at Camp Zama , Japan until 1959 . As a postdoctoral fellow , McDevitt worked in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School before returning to internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1961/1962 . In 1962 McDevitt went to the Medical Research Council in Mill Hill ( London ) for a research stay . In 1964 he began teaching at Harvard University Medical School in Boston before becoming a professor at Stanford University (1966 Assistant Professor , 1969 Associate Professor , 1972 Full Professor), initially in immunology, and from 1978 also in microbiology. In 1968 he was certified as an immunologist. He was Guest professor in 1991 at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong and in 1992 to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa , Alabama . In 1981/1982 he was President of the American Association of Immunologists .

He is married to Grete Sonderstrup McDevitt. The couple have four children.

Act

McDevitt has made particular merits in studying the relationships between the immune response and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The pathogenetic basis of rheumatoid arthritis has been the focus of his scientific work for decades.

More recent work also deals with the pathogenesis of type I diabetes mellitus .

Awards (selection)

• 1977 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• 1981 Passano Award
• 1983 membership in the Institute of Medicine
• 1984 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1987 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
• 1995 membership in the Royal Society
• 1998 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences

The Stanford University School of Medicine awards the Hugh McDevitt Prize for the best dissertation in the field of immunology .

Web links

• Hugh McDevitt Profile and CV (PDF, 84 kB) at Stanford University (stanford.edu); Retrieved April 25, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Early trigger for type 1 diabetes found in mice, Stanford scientists report at esciencenews.com; Retrieved April 25, 2011
2. ^ The Passano Awards 1945–2009 at passanofoundation.org; Retrieved April 25, 2011
3. ^ Goethe University - laureate since 1952. In: uni-frankfurt.de. March 14, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 . 
4. ^ Academy Honors 15 for Major Contributions to Science at the National Academy of Sciences (nationalacademies.org); Retrieved April 25, 2011