Obituaries
AAI honors deceased members by publicizing obituaries on our website. If you know a member of our community who has recently passed away, please contact our membership department at members@aai.org. Tributes to deceased members may be submitted for consideration for publication in the AAI Newsletter and on the page; kindly direct inquiries/submissions to AAINewsletter@aai.org.
2023
AAI President (1977–1978), AstraZeneca Professor of Respiratory and Inflammatory Diseases, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (d. 6/23/2023)
, A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (d. August 23, 2023).
professor of pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine (d. 5/19/2023)
), professor emeritus and former Department of Microbiology and Immunology chair, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (d. 8/1/2023)
, Frances R. and Helen S. Pentz Visiting Professor of Science and adjunct professor of biology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (d. 5/7/2023)
Michael B. A. Oldstone, M.D. (AAI ’70), Professor Emeritus, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (d. 7/13/2023)
Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Houston, TX (d. May 31, 2023).
2022
, professor, McMaster Brain-Body Institute, St. Joseph's Healthcare (d. 7/25/2022)
Matthew F. Mescher, Ph.D., AAI '79, Professor Emeritus and former Virginia and David C. Utz Land Grant Chair in Fundamental Immunobiology, University of Minnesota (d. 12/21/2021)
Joost J. Oppenheim, M.D. DFAAI (AAI ’68), senior investigator and head of the Cellular Immunology Section in the Cancer Innovation Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH (d. 5/14/2022)
, professor of medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (d. 11/16/2022)
, the Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (d. 12/16/2022)
, senior investigator and head of the Chemoattractant Receptor and Signal Section in the Cancer Innovation Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH (d. 12/24/2022)
2021
, AAI ’10, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Immunologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (d. 3/15/2021). View May 29 memorial service information .
Christine A. Biron, Ph.D., DFAAI (AAI '84), Esther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Professor of Medical Science, Brown University (d. 10/16/2021)
Frank W. Fitch, M.D., Ph.D., DFAAI (AAI ’61), AAI President (1992–1993), Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (d. 4/2/2021)
, DFAAI, AAI ’95, Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (d. 1/22/2021)
Thomas A. Waldmann, M.D., AAI '71, Distinguished Investigator and Chief Emeritus, Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH (d. 9/25/2021)
2020
, AAI ’77, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Portugal (d.4/14/2020)
, AAI Emeritus ’83, Consultant (formerly with Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Corp.), West Orange, NJ (d. 3/13/2020)
Wendy L. Havran, Ph.D., DFAAI, AAI ’85, Professor, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA (d.1/20/2020)
, AAI ’56, Lecturer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA (d. 7/30/2020)
2019
, AAI ’73, Associate Editor for The JI (1980–1984), President Emeritus, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr. (d. 1/7/2019)
, AAI ’71, Microbiologist (retired), U.S. Food & Drug Administration (d. 9/23/2019)
2018
, AAI ’51, Professor Emeritus, Salk Inst. for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (d. 10/23/2018)
, AAI ’87, Scientia Professor, Kirby Inst., Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (d. 3/18/2018)
Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., AAI ’60, Professor (retired), Johns Hopkins Univ. (d. 6/15/2018)
, AAI ’94, Professor (retired), Univ. of Georgia (d. 7/10/2018)
Kimishige Ishizaka, M.D., Ph.D., AAI ’58, past AAI president (1984–1985), President and Scientific Director (retired), La Jolla Inst. for Allergy and Immunology (d. 7/6/2018)
Thomas Ray Jerrells, Ph.D., AAI ’80, Professor (retired), Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr. in Omaha (d. 5/22/2018)
AAI ’73, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Med. Sch. (d. 1/21/2018)
, AAI ’75, Associate Editor for The JI (1981–1985), NIAMS - NIH, Bethesda, MD (d. 12/20/2018)
Bonnie J. Mathieson, Ph.D., AAI ’78, Retired, NIH, Bethesda, MD (d. 1/8/2018)
, AAI ’00, Associate Professor of Immunology, Univ. of Connecticut (d. 7/26/2018)
, AAI ’65, past AAI president (1991–1992) and secretary-treasurer (1970–1986), Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH (d. 11/20/2018)
, AAI ’91, Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Medical Science, Univ. of Minnesota (d. 9/18/2018)
, AAI ’88, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (d. 6/19/2018)
Sang A. Park, Ph.D., AAI ’18, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH/NIDCR, Bethesda, MD (d. 1/22/2018)
, AAI ’74, Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, Baylor Col. of Med., Texas Children's Hosp., Houston, TX (d. 10/9/2018)
Harald von Boehmer, M.D., Ph.D., AAI Hon. ’92, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Med. Sch. and Dana-Farber Cancer Inst. (d. 6/24/2018)
2017
Michael A. Beaven, Ph.D., AAI ’88, Scientist Emeritus, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD (d. 04/08/2017)
James R. Dasch, Ph.D., AAI ’84, Director, Abazyme, Needham, MA (d. 3/28/2017)
Derek N. Hart, M.D., AAI ’10, Professor, Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (d. 12/12/2017)
Arthur G. Johnson, Ph.D., AAI ’57, Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Univ. of Minnesota Med. Sch. (d. 01/08/2017)
James J. Lee, Ph.D., AAI ’02, Professor, Mayo Clin., Scottsdale, AZ (d. 3/25/2017)
Charles D. Mills, Ph.D., AAI ’16, Founder, BioMed. Consultants, Marine on St. Croix, MN (d. 05/28/2017)
David D. Porter, M.D., AAI ’69, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of California, Santa Monica (d. 02/13/2017)
Douglas D. Redelman, Ph.D., AAI ’77, Research Professor, Univ. of Nevada Sch. of Med., Reno, NV (d. 02/07/2017)
Maria Estela B. Roux, Ph.D., AAI ’82, Career Investigator, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 06/18/2017)
Charles D. Surh, Ph.D., AAI ’95, Professor, Inst. for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang, South Korea (d. 10/6/2017)
Jon J. Van Rood, M.D., Ph.D., AAI Hon. ’79, Leiden, The Netherlands (d. 7/21/2017)
, AAI ’10, Chief, Giannina Gaslini Inst., Liguria, Italy (d. 12/2/2017)
Mark A. Wainberg, Ph.D., AAI ’76, Retired, Jewish Gen. Hosp. McGill Univ., Quebec, Canada (d. 4/11/2017)
Thomas M. Yankee, Pharm.D., Ph.D., AAI ’03, Associate Professor, Univ. of Kansas Med. Ctr., Kansas City, KS (d. 6/23/2017)
Julius S. Youngner, AAI ’50, Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., Pittsburgh, PA (d. 4/27/2017)
2016
Henry N. Claman, M.D., AAI ’65, Professor, Univ. of Colorado Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Aurora, CO (d. 09/03/2016)
Richard R. Hardy, Ph.D., AAI ’96, Professor, Inst. for Cancer Res., Philadelphia, PA (d. 05/29/2016)
George Klein, M.D., AAI Hon. ’73, Research Group Leader, Karolinska Inst., Stockholm, Sweden (d.12/10/2016)
Robert B. Nussenblatt, M.D., M.P.H., AAI ’82, Chief of Laboratory of Immunology, NIH-NEI, Bethesda, MD (d. 4/17/2016)
Daniel R. Salomon, M.D., AAI ’11, Professor, Scripps Res. Inst., La Jolla, CA (d. 11/10/2016)
Joy Williams, Ph.D., AAI ’14, Staff Scientist, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD (d. 11/18/2016)