Dr Douglas R. Green
Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board
Ascend Biopharmaceuticals
Australia
Biography
Douglas R. Green is the Chair of the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, a position he has held since 2005. Prior to that he was head of the Division of Cellular Immunology at La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Green’s laboratory studies many aspects of cell death and survival, including molecular pathways of cell death in cancer and the immune system, the clearance of dying cells, and the role of metabolism in the immune response. His contributions to the understanding of the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis, the process of necroptosis and its regulation, and the discovery and characterization of LC3-associated phagocytosis, among other findings, have resulted in the publication of over 500 research papers and reviews. Dr. Green is listed as an Institute of Scientific Information “highly-cited” scholar, both in Immunology and in Molecular Biology. Dr Green completed his PhD at Yale University.
Research Interest
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