Richard A. Flavell
Chairman, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
Scientific Advisors
ImmunGene, Inc
India
Biography
Dr. Flavell is Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry from the University of Hull, England, and performed postdoctoral work in Amsterdam and Zurich. Before accepting his current position, Dr. Flavell was first Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam; then Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London; and subsequently President and Chief Scientific Officer of Biogen Research Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Flavell is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He has published over 800 papers and is recipient of many awards including Invitrogen Meritorious Career Award from the American Association of Immunologists.
Research Interest
Immunology, Biochemistry, genomics, Molecular Biology
