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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. (Paperback 2003) Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy Cambridge: The MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1999 (Paperback 2000). Awarded "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice (journal of the American Library Association) and First Prize, Allied Health category, by ...
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CH CBE FRS (/ ˈ m ɛ d ə w ər /; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) [1] was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants.
As of 2024, she is an emeritus professor at Scripps Research, and serves on the advisory boards of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and the San Diego Biomedical Research Institute. [3] [4] Her research has focused on immune tolerance and autoimmunity, particularly type 1 diabetes, as well as the immune response to tumors.
Immune tolerance encompasses the range of physiological mechanisms by which the body reduces or eliminates an immune response to particular agents. It is used to describe the phenomenon underlying discrimination of self from non-self, suppressing allergic responses, allowing chronic infection instead of rejection and elimination, and preventing ...
The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet is an elimination diet designed to help reduce inflammation, manage symptoms and improve quality of life for people with autoimmune diseases.
His research is focused on understanding T cell activation and immune tolerance in autoimmunity and organ transplantation. In April 2016, he co-founded and served as the president and CEO of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy,. [3] In 2019, he co-founded and is Chief Executive Officer and President of Sonoma Biotherapeutics. [4]
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, also known as the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, is a biomedical research center at the University of California, Los Angeles that focuses on stem cell research. The center's more than 250 faculty members represent the UCLA professional schools as ...
Matzinger is chief of the T-Cell Tolerance and Memory Section at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). [6] The lab has been referred to as the "Ghost Lab" for Matzinger's choice to conduct the first nine months of her research alone with a focus on chaos theory.