Douglas Fearon

Biography

Prof. Douglas Fearon received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School and completed his internal medicine training on the Osler Medical Service of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After serving as a physician in the Army, he was a post-doctoral fellow in rheumatology at Harvard Medical School where he was later appointed Professor of Medicine in 1984. He moved back to Johns Hopkins in 1987 as Professor of Medicine and as Director of the Division of Molecular Rheumatology, and of the Graduate Program in Immunology. In 1993, he moved to the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 2001, and as the Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology in 2003. Professor Fearon recently returned to the United States as the Walter B. Wriston Professor of Pancreatic Cancer Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, and as a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. His recent research has focused on cancer immunology.

Research Interest

immunology