Donna Farber

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor of Surgical Science, Department of Surgery

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
• 1991-1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
• 1993-1994 Research Associate, Immunology and signal transduction, The Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
• 1984-1990 PhD, Biochemistry-Molecular Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
• 1980-1984 BS, Microbiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• 2008-2010 Professor, Department of Surgery (primary appointment), Department of Microbiology and Immunology (secondary appointment), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• 2003-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• 2000-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• 1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

HONORS AND AWARDS:
• Alumni Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1982
• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa 1985
• Kirin Graduate Fellowship, University of California 1985-1986
• Regents Fellowship, University of California 1989
• Dean's Graduate Speaker Award, University of California 1990
• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) fellowship, for postdoctoral research at The Pasteur Institute 1993-1994
• AAI Junior Faculty Travel award 2001
• FASEB mentor and minority trainee award 2005, 06, 07
• Elected to Henry Kunkel Society 2006-present
• Mary Jane Kugel Award, JDRF 2007

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES:
• American Association of Immunologists
• American Society of Transplantation
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Clinical Immunology Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Farber’s research interests include immune memory and protective immunity, influenza immune responses, transplantation immunology, and autoimmunity.

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