Laurie H. Glimcher

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Laurie Hollis Glimcher (* 1951 ) is an American immunologist . She has been President of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since October 2016 .

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Laurie Glimcher is the daughter of a doctor and scientist at Harvard Medical School , Melvin Glimcher (1925-2014). She grew up in Brookline just outside Boston . Glimcher studied at Radcliffe College ( Harvard University ) with a bachelor's degree in 1972 and at Harvard Medical School with an MD in 1976 as a medical degree. She completed her specialist training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In 1991 Glimcher was appointed professor of immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health , where she was also director of the department of biological sciences. She also held a professorship in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School . She then was Professor of Internal Medicine and Dean of Medical School at Weill Cornell Medical College and Provost of Medical Affairs at Cornell University - except for her time at NIAID, her first career outside the Boston area . In 2016 she was interviewed as dean of Harvard Medical School, but decided on the position of director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , again in Boston. She retained the position of Adjunct Professor at Cornell University.

Glimcher belongs (as of 2016) to the Board of Directors ( Board of Directors ) of Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Waters Corporation .

Glimcher was able to make fundamental contributions to the understanding of the transcriptional regulation of the differentiation of T cells . She discovered the transcription factors T-bet and XBP-1 . More recent work deals with the activation of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in bone metabolism .

Glimcher has made an outstanding contribution to promoting the careers of women, especially women with children, in the medical and scientific field. She is married to the biochemist Gregory A. Petsko for the second time and has three children from her first marriage.

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  1. ↑ Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, named president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In: dana-farber.org. February 23, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Melissa Bailey: Recruited to lead Harvard med, 'fearless' scientist chose Dana-Farber. In: statnews.com. October 8, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016 .
  3. ^ Board of Directors at Bristol-Myers Squibb (bms.com); Retrieved December 25, 2016.
  4. ^ Leadership: Waters. In: waters.com. November 10, 2016, accessed December 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.1 MB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved December 25, 2016.
  6. ^ The American Society for Clinical Investigation. In: the-asci.org. October 24, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Laurie Glimcher. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
  8. ↑ GLIMCHER, LAURIE ( Memento from December 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ William B. Coley Award. In: cancerresearch.org. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
  10. ↑ 2014 Awards - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In: unesco.org. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
  11. ↑ George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship. In: aap-online.org. Retrieved December 25, 2016 .
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SURNAME Glimcher, Laurie H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glimcher, Laurie; Glimcher, Laurie Hollis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951