Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D.

First Winford P. Larson Lecturer

Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Weinstock Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Pathogenesis and Protection in Tuberculosis

October 2, 1996, 2:30 p.m.

Room 2-650 Moos Tower

Barry Bloom is currently an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Weinstock Professor and previous chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his B.A. degree, and an honorary Sc.D. from Amherst College, and his Ph.D. from the Rockefeller University. Professor Bloom is a past president of the American Association of Immunologists and of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, served on the National Advisory Council of the NIAID, and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Member and Councillor of the Institute of Medicine, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bloom received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases and is an internationally recognized authority in immunology, vaccines, and leprosy and tuberculosis. The latter "white plague" was the topic of his lecture.