Tim Mosmann
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Timothy R. Mosmann (born March 7, 1949 in Birkenhead , England ) is a British immunologist and microbiologist .
Life
Tim Mosmann studied chemistry and physiology at the University of Natal in South Africa (bachelor's degree in 1968) and microbiology at Rhodes University in South Africa (bachelor's degree in 1969). In 1973 he was at University of British Columbia in Canada in microbiology doctorate ( Ph.D. ). He then worked for two years at the Children's Hospital in Toronto before moving to Glasgow University in 1975 . In 1977 he became an assistant professor in a research group on immune regulation at the University of Alberta in Edmonton , Canada. In 1982 Mosmann moved to the DNAX Research Institute - a small, privately financed start-up institute - in Palo Alto , California , where he worked until 1990. He was then appointed professor of immunology and later of immunology and microbiology at the University of Alberta.
Since 1998 he has been Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Rochester and Director of the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology .
Tim Mosmann is married and the family has two children.
Act
Tim Mosmann's work has contributed significantly to the understanding of how the immune system works in infectious diseases and in autoimmune diseases (such as allergies ) and chronic inflammatory diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis ).
For his "outstanding contributions in the field of immunology" he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2008, endowed with 100,000 euros . In the statement of the Foundation Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation it was stated: “The research work of Tim Mosmann has led to the discovery of two subtypes of helper T-lymphocytes , the T H 1 and T H 2 cells, and new insights into the Disease mechanism of infectious diseases and allergies made possible. ” Mosmann first described the differences between T H 1 and T H 2 cells in 1986.
Mosmann has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1995 . From 2002, according to the Institute for Scientific Information, he was one of the most cited scientists for a number of years. He has been a scientific advisor to companies such as Genzyme Diagnostics and MedCell Biologics, Inc.
honors and awards
- William B. Coley Award from the American Cancer Research Institute, together with Robert L. Coffman and Stuart F. Schlossman (1997)
- Avery Landsteiner Prize of the German Society for Immunology (1994)
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2008)
Web links
- Tim Mosmann's website at the University of Rochester Medical Center
- Paul Ehrlich Prize 2008 for T cell researchers. On: aerztezeitung.de of March 13, 2008
- Mouse Model Reveals Mechanisms of Immune Response. ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Tim Mosmann on sciencewatch.com , September 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Infectious diseases and allergies: helper cells out of balance. On: paul-ehrlich-stiftung.de , press release of October 18, 2007 (PDF)
- ↑ Timothy R. Mosmann et al .: Two types of murine helper T cell clone. I. Definition according to profiles of lymphokine activities and secreted proteins. In: Journal of Immunology. Volume 136, No. 7, 1986, pp. 2348–2357, full text (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosmann, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mosmann, Timothy R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British immunologist and microbiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenhead , England |