Mark M. Davis

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Mark M. Davis

Mark Morris Davis (born November 27, 1952 in Paris ) is an American molecular biologist and immunologist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford , California .

Life

Davis earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland in 1974 and a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California , both in molecular biology . As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked in the immunology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda , Maryland. He received his first professorship ( Assistant Professor 1983, Associate Professor 1986) in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford , California. He has been a full professor there since 1991, and was the institute director (chair) from 2002 to 2004 . Since 1987 he has also been doing research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford. Since 2004 he has been the director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection .

Act

Davis investigated the genes of the T-cells from mice . In his work he was able to show that T lymphocytes have their own genetic makeup with which millions of different T cell receptors can be formed (see V (D) J recombination ). Analysis of the identified and sequenced genes of the T-cell receptor revealed many of its structural details that they share with antibodies . Davis developed cellular and molecular techniques to study the antigen specificity of T cells in tissue.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Passano Awards 1945–2009 at passanofoundation.org; Retrieved January 11, 2011
  2. ^ Mark M. Davis PhD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved December 9, 2012
  3. Professor Mark M.Davis - King Faisal International Prize. In: kfip.org. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
  4. General Motors Cancer Research Awards Laureates 1979–1998 (PDF; 106 kB) at aacrjournals.org; Retrieved January 11, 2011
  5. Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ William B. Coley Award. In: cancerresearch.org. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
  7. Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2004 goes to immunologists Mark M. Davis and Tak W. Mak ( Memento of January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 50 kB) at uni-frankfurt.de; accessed on January 24, 2016