Ronald E. Gress
Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Gress received his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and his internal medicine residency and oncology fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the NCI. His research interests have been in the area of transplantation immunology with emphasis on the regulation of allogeneic responses and the mechanisms by which peripheral lymphocyte populations are generated and maintained. Dr. Gress is also chief of the Medical Oncology Clinical Research Unit and head of the Transplantation Immunology Section, Experimental Immunology Branch.
Research Interest
Clinical Research, Immunology, Stem Cell Biology
Publications
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Mackall CL, Fleisher TA, Brown MR, Andrich MP, Chen CC, et al. (1995) Age, thymopoiesis, and CD4+ T-lymphocyte regeneration after intensive chemotherapy. N. Engl. J. Med. 332: 143-9.
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Lucas PJ, Kim SJ, Melby SJ, Gress RE (2000) Disruption of T cell homeostasis in mice expressing a T cell-specific dominant negative transforming growth factor beta II receptor. J. Exp. Med. 191: 1187-96.
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Hakim FT, Memon SA, Cepeda R, Jones EC, Chow CK, et al. (2005) Age-dependent incidence, time course, and consequences of thymic renewal in adults. J. Clin. Invest. 115: 930-9.
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Sportes C, Hakim FT, Memon SA, Zhang H, Chua KS, et al. (2008) Administration of rhIL-7 in humans increases in vivo TCR repertoire diversity by preferential expansion of naive T cell subsets. J. Exp. Med. 205: 1701-14.
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Flomerfelt FA, El Kassar N, Gurunathan C, Chua KS, League SC, et al. (2010) Tbata modulates thymic stromal cell proliferation and thymus function. J. Exp. Med. 207: 2521-32.
