David Talmage

David W. Talmage (born 1919) is an American immunologist. He made significant contributions to the clonal selection theory.^[1]

Career

Talmage received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1944. From 1959 he was Professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, Professor of microbiology from 1960 to 1986, and distinguished professor starting in 1986. Between 1973 and 1983 he served as director of Webb-Waring Lung Institute and as Associate Dean of Research from 1983 to 1986.^[2]

Talmage's protege Andor Szentivanyi discovered The Beta Adrenergic Theory of Asthma.^[3]

References

1. ^ "History of the Integrated Department of Immunology". University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. http://www.uchsc.edu/immuno/history.html. Retrieved 2009-09-22. 
2. ^ Talmage, David. "The Webb-Waring Lung Institute – Plans for the future". Rocky Mountain Medical Journal. http://tobaccodocuments.org/nysa_ti_s3/TI09320718.html?pattern=Talmage&ocr_position=&rotation=0&zoom=750&start_page=1&end_page=2. Retrieved 22 September 2009. 
3. ^ "Refugee Doctors Build Relationships". The Evening Independent. 30 July 1984. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r-gLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6826,3804724&dq=david-talmage. Retrieved 2009-09-22. 

• Cruse, J.M. and Lewis, R.E. 1994 David W. Talmage and the advent of the cell selection theory of antibody synthesis. Journal of Immunology 153:919–24.

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