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Ulrich Von Andrian, MD, PhD

Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School.

For more information: http://vonandrian.hms.harvard.edu/About%202014.html

Ulrich H. von Andrian, M.D. received his M.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. He did postdoctoral work at the La Jolla Institute for Experimental Medicine and, subsequently, at Stanford University in California. He then went on to Harvard in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at HMS, and was Senior Investigator at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research (now called The Immune Disease Institute or IDI). He is currently the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School. Uli is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and several professional societies from which he received professional awards for outstanding research. These include the Amgen Outstanding Investigator Award (ASIP, 2004), the Henry Pickering Bowditch Award (APS, 2006), the BD Biosciences Investigator Award (AAI,2007) and the Eugene Landis Award (MCS, 2010).

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