Emanual Maverakis | |
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 Maverakis in 2018 | |
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| Education | Medicine |
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| Fields | Immunogenetics |
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| Thesis | Mhc-guided processing: binding of large antigen fragments (2003) |
Emanual Maverakis is an American physician-scientist, immunologist working in the field of immunogenetics, and a professor at the University of California, Davis.
Emanual Maverakis was born in Oakland, California, and spent his early childhood in South Central Los Angeles. His family eventually relocated to Moorpark, California, where he attended high school. He is of mixed heritage. His mother's family immigrated to the United States from Jalisco Mexico and his father's family immigrated from Crete. Although he would become an accomplished academician, following high school, Maverakis did not immediately pursue a university education. He spent 3 years working as a security guard. He eventually completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with and was mentored by the late Eli Sercarz PhD, a notable immunologist. He graduated from UCLA with departmental honors and with the Latin distinction summa cum laude. Worried about his rough vernacular, Dr. Sercarz ask Maverakis to delay matriculation to Harvard Medical School for one year, which he agreed to. As a medical student, Maverakis continued his research endeavors, spending a year as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student Research Fellow at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology between his second and third years of medical school. Maverakis graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2003 with an MD summa cum laude, becoming one of only 15 medical students in Harvard's 237-year history to graduate with highest honors. [1]
Maverakis joined the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in 2007, maintaining a joint appointment as an assistant professor in residence at the University of California, Davis. After 6 years with the VA, he relocated his laboratory and clinical duties to the University of California, Davis, where he is now a full professor in the Departments of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Dermatology. His research team is known for their work in the field of predictive modelling, as well as for the development of novel analysis tools for immunogenetics. As a principal investigator, Maverakis has received several awards, including an NIH Director's New Innovator Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, and early career awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2019, he was elected to the California Academy of Sciences. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.
Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1943–2003) was a noted immunologist who helped create the modern field of innate immunity. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he held a faculty position at Yale University's Medical School and was an Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
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Philippa "Pippa" Marrack, FRS is an English immunologist and academic, based in the United States, best known for her research and discoveries pertaining to T cells. Marrack is the Ida and Cecil Green Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at National Jewish Health and a distinguished professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado Denver.
Kevin R. Johnson is the Dean of the UC Davis School of Law. Before becoming a professor, he was a student at Harvard Law School where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, served as a clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked for law firm Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Johnson joined the faculty at the UC Davis School of Law in 1989, was named Associate Dean in 1998, and the Dean in 2008. Of Mexican American ancestry, he is the first Latino to head a law school in the UC system.
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Frederick W. Alt is an American geneticist. He is a member of the Immunology section of the National Academy of Sciences and a Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children's Hospital. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, since 1987.
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