2024 Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology
The Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology was established in 2011 by the Department of Immunology and the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute to recognize the generous support of the Robert E. Eberly Family and to showcase each year the research of three prominent international leaders in the field of immunology.
February 15, 2024
Mark K. Jenkins, PhD
• Regents Professor
• Director, Center for Immunology
• University of Minnesota Medical School
May 9, 2024
Suzanne L. Topalian, MD
• Bloomberg-Kimmel Professor of Cancer Immunotherapy
• Professor of Surgery and Oncology
• Director, Melanoma Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
•Associate Director, Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
• Johns Hopkins University – School of Medicine
October 17, 2024
Louis Staudt, MD, PhD
• Chief, Lymphoid Malignancies Brach, Center for Cancer Research
• Director, Center for Cancer Genomics
• National Cancer Institute, NIH
December 12, 2024
Luke O’Neill, PhD, FRS
• Professor and Chair, Biochemistry
• Chief Scientific Officer, Senda Biosciences
• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Previous Eberly Lectures
November 30, 2023
Susan Kaech, PhD
• Professor & Director of the Nomis Center for Immunobiology & Microbial Pathogenesis at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
September 14, 2023
Professor Dame Fiona Powrie
• Director of The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
• University of Oxford
October 6, 2022
Jenny P-Y Ting, PhD
• William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Director, Center for Translational Immunology
• Co-Director, Inflammatory Disease Institute
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
June 2, 2022
John J. O’Shea, MD
• Scientific Director, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal & Skin Disease, NIH
• Senior Investigator, Molecular Immunology & Inflammation Branch
• Lymphocyte and Cell Biology Section
October 14, 2021
Ulrich von Andrian, MD
• Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology, Department of Immunology
• Harvard School of Medicine
September 19, 2019
Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD
• Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor
• Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Division of Rheumatology
• Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology
• University of California, San Francisco
September 27, 2018
Jeffrey A. Bluestone, PhD
•A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor
• Director, Hormone Research Institute
• University of California, San Francisco
May 10, 2018
Robert D. Schreiber, PhD
•Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor
• Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs
March 22, 2018
Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD
•George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology
• Interim Co-Chair, Microbiology and Immunobiology
•Harvard Medical School
October 5, 2017
Klaus Rajewsky, MD
•Senior Group Leader “Immune Regulation and Cancer”
• The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
May 11, 2017
Drew M. Pardoll, MD, PhD
•Abeloff Professor of Oncology
• Director, Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
•Co-Director, Cancer Immunology
• John Hopkins School of Medicine
March 2, 2017
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD
•Professor of Medicine/Rheumatology
• University of Massachusetts Medical School
October 20, 2016
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
•Professor, Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
• Yale School of Medicine
• Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
May 19, 2016
Douglas R. Green, PHD
•Chair, Department of Immunology
• Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
March 3, 2016
Stanley R. Riddell, MD
•Member, Program in Immunology
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
October 22, 2015
Jason Cyster, PhD
•Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF
• Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
May 28, 2015
Alexander Rudensky, PhD
•Chairman, Immunology Program
• Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
•Tri-Institutional Professor at MSKCC, The Rockefeller University and Cornell University
• Professor, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School
•Professor, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University
• Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
February 19, 2015
Kate Fitzgerald, PhD
•Professor of Medicine, Program in Innate Immunity
• Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
•University of Massachusetts Medical School
October 16, 2014
Ronald N. Germain, MD, PhD
•NIH Distinguished Investigator
• Chief, Laboratory of Systems Biology (LSB)
•Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section
•LSB Associate Director, Trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology
•National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
May 22, 2014
Vijay K. Kuchroo, PhD, DVM
•Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Co-Director, Infection and Immunity Center, Brigham Research Institute
April 3, 2014
Antonio Lanzavecchia, MD
•Director, Institute for Research in Biomedicine
• Professor of Human Immunology, ETH Zurich
October 17, 2013
Diane Mathis, PhD
•Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology
• Head, Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
• Harvard Medical School
April 25, 2013
Shimon Sakaguchi, MD, PhD
•Professor, Department of Experimental Immunology
• Immunology Frontier Research Center
• Osaka University
February 28, 2013
Anne O’Gara, PhD
•Head, Division of Immunoregulation
• The Medical Research Council
• National Institute for Medical Research
October 18, 2012
Sir Gustav Nossal, MD, PhD
•Professor Emeritus
• Department of Pathology
• The University of Melbourne
May 24, 2012
Rebecca H. Buckley, MD
•J. Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics
• Professor of Immunology
• Duke University Medical Center
February 16, 2012
Max D. Cooper, MD
•Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
• Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Emory Vaccine Center
• Emory University School of Medicine
