Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D.
Brief Bio
Arlene Sharpe is the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, Head of the Division of Immunology, and Interim Co-Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Sharpe is the Co-Director of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She served as the hundredth president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2016 to 2017 and served as an AAI Council member from 2011 to 2018.
AAI Service History
Joined: 1996
President: 2016–2017
Vice President: 2015–2016
Councillor: 2011–2015
Committees
Program Committee: 1997–2000
Publications Committee: 2005–2009
President's Address
"Second signals make all the difference," Delievered May 12, 2017
President's Message
​"AAI President’s Message," July 2016
AAI Newsletter (October 2016) 10–11.
"AAI President’s Message to Members on Issues of National Concern," February 1, 2017
AAI Newsletter (March 2017) 4.
Awards and Honors
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search, Captain of Science Award, 1971
- Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1993
- Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science, 2006
- William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology, 2014
- Laguna Biotech CEO Forum Award Winner Hall of Fame, 2015
- Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 2017
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2018
Institutional/Biographical Links
- Harvard Immunology Program
- , Harvard University
- AAI profile, AAI Newsletter (October 2016) 12–13