Jack S. Remington
Jack Samuel Remington (born January 19, 1931 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American medic.
Remington studied at the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a doctorate in medicine (MD) in 1956. He completed his specialist training in San Francisco (County Hospital, University) and was from 1957 to 1959 at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 1960 to 1962 he was at the Thorndike Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and then professor at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. From 1974 he was a professor at Stanford.
He deals with congenital (acquired from the mother) infections such as toxoplasmosis , the cellular immune response to intracellular pathogens, antibodies in body secretions, infections in immunocompromised patients and tumor immunology.
He is an honorary doctorate from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. In 1987/88 he was President of the Infectious Disease Society of America. In 1996 he received the Bristol Award . In 1988 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 1999 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1998 he became an honorary member of the Ludwig Heilmeyer Society . In 1987 he received the Harry Feldman Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
Fonts
- with Jerome O. Klein : Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infants , Saunders, 8th edition 2015
Web links
- Web site at Stanford University
- Literature by and about Jack S. Remington in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Remington, Jack S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Remington, Jack Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |