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The Chairman of the IADRF Board of Scientists
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Dr. C. Garrison Fathman is serving as the founding chairman of the Board of Scientists that reviews applications for IADRF research grants. Dr. Fathman is professor of medicine and co-chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as director of the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford (CCIS).
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Dr. Fathman's substantial contributions in the areas of cellular and molecular immunology and immunogenetics have brought him international recognition. In particular, he is acclaimed for his establishment and exploitation of the technology of antigen-specific T cell cloning, an accomplishment that has facilitated a remarkable series of subsequent advances in understanding conventional as well as autoimmune responses. As director of the CCIS, Dr. Fathman has initiated a multi-laboratory study to generate novel gene therapy approaches to treating autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. He is also developing methods for transplantation tolerance induction.
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Dr. Fathman received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and his M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He did his residency training at Dartmouth Affiliated Hospitals and completed a fellowship in immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University. He then spent four years doing research, first as a clinical associate at the National Cancer Institute of the NIH, and then as a member of the Basel Institute of Immunology in Switzerland. He returned to the United States to join the faculty at the Mayo Clinic in 1977 and was recruited to Stanford University in 1981. Dr. Fathman is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Association of Immunologists and the Association of American Physicians. He is past-president of the Clinical Immunology Society, associate editor of the Annual Review of Immunology and Clinical Immunology, and a member of the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. Dr. Fathman has chaired a variety of national and international professional meetings and has written more than 250 articles on his research.
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| In addition to his many other positions of leadership, Dr. Fathman is the founding chairman of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, or FOCIS, and is the founding chairman of the Board of Scientists of the International Autoimmune Disease Research Foundation, or IADRF. |
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