The Department of Immunobiology Seminar Series presents:
“The cellular origin and long term consequences of autoantibodies during acute viral infection”
Presenter Details
James Heath, PhD
President, Institute for Systems Biology
Professor, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Dr. James Heath is president and professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. He also has affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington Bioengineering, Physics and Chemistry departments. Formerly, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA, and served as co-director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at UCLA.
Dr. Heath has had a profound impact on ISB since taking over leadership in 2018. He continues to make important discoveries in the field of cancer immunotherapy, and in 2022 was selected to lead a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center to study sequential targeted inhibitors and immunotherapies. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he quickly pivoted the focus of his lab and collaboratively worked with others within and beyond ISB to uncover secrets behind COVID-19 and long COVID. He published research that has changed how both are understood, and leads the Pacific Northwest consortium of the NIH-funded RECOVER study, which aims to understand the long-term effects of COVID.
Flyer for this event: 
imb_seminar_flyer_heath.pdf
Roy P. Drachman Hall, Room B111
1295 N. Martin Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719