Some Reasons Why Evolution Saved the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor

Dr. David Sherr, Boston University

September 9, 2015 @ 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

W201 Millennium Science Complex

Dr. Sherr graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.S. in biology in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University (at Cornell/Weill Medical School) on his 26th birthday. He performed his postdoctoral work in immunology under Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruj Benacerraf at Harvard Medical School from 1978-1982. He was appointed to the position of Instructor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School in 1982, to Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in 1982, and to Associate Professor in 1987. He was recruited to Boston University as full professor in 1994 to develop a lab-based environmental sciences group. Dr. Sherrs laboratory has been funded continually by the NIH since 1984 and has focused his work on the effects of environmental chemicals on the immune system and on the role of the AHR in cancer. He has received the BU School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award three times and he has trained 4 Masters students, 12 Ph.D. students,_ 24 postdoctoral fellows, and has served on 58 Ph.D. thesis advisory committees. He has published 113 peer-reviewed manuscripts and now serves as the Director of the NIH-funded Boston University Immunology Training Program and as Director of the NIH-funded Boston University Superfund Research Program._

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