- Alan Aderem
Alan Aderem is a biologist, specializing in
immunology andcell biology . Dr. Aderem's particular focus is theinnate immune system , the part of the immune system that responds generically to pathogens.Dr. Aderem is director of The
Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). Aderem co-founded the ISB withLeroy Hood andRuedi Aebersold in 2000.Aderem is from
South Africa . He received a PhD from theUniversity of Cape Town in 1979. In 1996, he was appointed Chair of the Parliamentary Review Commission of theSouth African Medical Research Council , and reappointed in 2001. Aderem's interests embrace diseases important to South Africa, includingAIDS andtuberculosis .Aderem's early work in the innate immune system was conducted at The
Rockefeller University in New York. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the TheUniversity of Washington , where he held appointments in the Departments of Immunology and Medicine.External links
* [http://www.systemsbiology.org/Scientists_and_Research/Faculty_Groups/Aderem_Group/Profile Alan Aderem's personal faculty page]
* [http://www.systemsbiology.org/Scientists_and_Research/Faculty_Groups/Aderem_Group Aderem Group] at the [http://www.systemsbiology.org Institutute for Systems Biology] in Seattle.
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