Anthony DeFranco

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
• Member: Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS), Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences(PIBS), and Immunology Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco

EDUCATION:
• AB, 1975, Biochemical & Molecular Biology, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
• PhD, 1979, Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Postdoctoral, 1979-83, Immunology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

HONORS AND AWARDS:
1974 Dreyfuss Foundation Fellow
1975 Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University
1975-78 NSF Predoctoral Fellow
1979-82 Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow; 2nd Rose Lieberman Lecturer, NIH 10/93
1994 NIAID Merit Award
1997-98 NIH Fogarty Senior International Award

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
We are interested in the regulation of B lymphocyte maturation and activation to antibody production and in macrophage function in innate immunity.

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