Joost J. Oppenheim

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Joost Joe Oppenheim (born August 11, 1934 in Venlo ) is an American immunologist . He is considered one of the leading experts on cytokines .

Oppenheim studied medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and an M.-D. degree in 1960. He then completed his clinical and specialist training at the King County Hospital in Seattle (internship 1960/61 ) and University of Washington Hospital (Assistant Medical Resident, 1961–62) and went to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland in 1962 . After a short post-doc stay at the University of Birmingham , he worked in the Biochemistry Laboratory of the National Institute of Dental Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1966 to 1969 and from 1970 head of the Cellular Immunology Department of the NIH. From 1983 he was director of the laboratory for cellular immune regulation at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the NIH in Frederick, Maryland.

In 1987 he received the Avery Landsteiner Prize and the Marie T. Bonazinga Research Award and in 1982 the Ferdin and Von Hebra Prize.

From 1994 he was editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association of Immunologists .

Fonts

  • Editor with Marc Feldmann Cytokine Reference: a compendium of cytokines and other mediators of host defense , 2 volumes, Academic Press 2001
  • Editor with Jeffrey L. Rossio, Andrew JH Gearing Clinical applications of cytokines: role in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy , Oxford University Press 1993
  • Editor with Ethan M. Shevach Immunophysiology: the role of cells and cytokines in immunity and inflammation , Oxford University Press 1990
  • Editor Molecular and cellular biology of cytokines: from the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cytokines (Milton Head Island, South Carolina 1989), Wiley-Liss 1990
  • Editor with Stanley Cohen Interleukins, lymphokines, and cytokines: proceedings of the Third International Lymphokine Workshop (Haverford College 1982), Academic Press 1983
  • Editor with David L. Rosenstreich, Michael Potter Cellular functions in immunity and inflammation , Edward Arnold 1981
  • Editor with Stanley Cohen, Edward Pick Biology of Lymphokines , Academic Press 1979
  • Editor with Rosenstreich Mitogens in Immunobiology , Academic Press 1976

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and career dates from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Joost J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheim, Joost Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Venlo