Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 14, 2003|Volume 32, Number 11

Noted scientists to discuss research in symposium honoring late Yale immunologist

The "Richard K. Gershon Symposium on Suppressor T Cells," a day of presentations and discussions by eminent researchers in immunology, will be held on Monday, Nov. 17, in the School of Medicine's Anlyan Center auditorium, located at 300 Cedar St.

The day-long symposium will begin at 9 a.m.

Each year there is an annual funded lecture honoring the late Dr. Richard K. Gershon, but this year, the Gershon family and the Department of Immunobiology decided to honor the 20th year of the researcher's passing with a larger event.

In the early 1970s, Gershon ignited the new field of immunology with his discovery of suppressor T cells, now recognized to be important in cancer, autoimmunity, allergies and infectious diseases. Gershon, who earned his medical degree at the Yale School of Medicine, worked in the Department of Pathology where he became professor and founded the Howard Hughes Cellular Immunology Unit at Yale.

The speakers at the Nov. 17 symposium are international leaders in the current fields of medical research investigating the role of suppressor T cells in various diseases. They are: Douglas Green, La Jolla Institute of Allergy & Immunology; Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan; Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Alexander Rudensky, University of Washington School of Medicine; Dr. Harvey Cantor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Medicine; Dr. Maria Grazia Roncarolo, TIGET, Italy; Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, England; Anne O'Garra, the National Institute for Medical Research, London; and Ruslan Medzhitov of Yale.

This symposium is designed to be of particular interest to all faculty and students in the biological and medical sciences for its historical basis and medical timeliness.

The symposium is free and open to the public. To register, contact Mary Jane Chicoski at (203) 785-7122 or via email to maryjane.chicoski@yale.edu.

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