KASPER, Dennis L.
Title: William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Address: Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel: 617-432-5505
Email: dennis_kasper@hms.harvard.edu
Education Background:
1963 Zoology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1967 M.D., University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
1963-1967 USPHS Fellow, Biophysics, University Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
1973-1974 Research Fellow, Infectious Disease, Harvard Medical Unit, Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA
Working Experiences:
1982-1986 Member, Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1985-present William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1991-1993 Chairman, Board of Scientific Counselors, NIAID, NIH
1991-present Editor, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
1995-2012 Director, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
1997-present Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1997-2003 Executive Dean for Academic Programs, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2003-2015 Director, New England Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
2002-2004 President, International Society for Infectious Diseases
2005-2010 Chairman, Nat’l Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), NIH, Washington, D.C.
2008-2012 NIH Blue Ribbon Panel (NEIDL), National Institutes of Health
2015-present Scientific Advisor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Interests:
Organismal design: Interaction between microbial molecules and the host immune system