Will Dendritic Cell Subsets Help Us Address the Challenges of Cancer, Autoimmunity & Viral

Dr. Jacques Banchereau is director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas and holds The Max and Gayle Clampitt Chair for Immunology Research. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Paris in 1980 and later served as director of the Schering Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research near Lyon, France, where he was among the first to discover how to grow human dendritic cells. Dr. Banchereau came to Baylor in 1996 to develop the Institute for Immunology and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He also serves on the National Institutes of Health's Experimental Immunology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, in the area of experimental immunology. He has published more than 275 papers and 170 book chapters and reviews in major international journals, reviews manuscripts for various scientific journals and is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific conferences. His research interests center around various areas of immunology and cancer including dendritic cells, novel cytokines and antibody-producing B lymphocytes.