Hugh McDevitt

Hugh O'Neill McDevitt ( born August 26, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American immunologist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Life

McDevitt earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1952 at Stanford University in Stanford, California, and 1955, an MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. As a medical assistant, he worked 1955-1957 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, New York, before he served in Japan for the U.S. Army at Camp Zama to 1959. McDevitt worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, before returning in Internal Medicine of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston worked 1961/1962. 1962 McDevitt went for a research stay at the Medical Research Council in Mill Hill ( London). In 1964 he took first teaching activities for the Harvard University Medical School in Boston, before he became a professor at Stanford University (1966 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1969, Associate Professor in 1972 ), first of Immunology, 1978 for Microbiology. In 1968 he had received the Facharztanekennung as an immunologist. Guest professorships led him in 1991 to the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong and in 1992 to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In the years 1981/1982 he was president of the American Association of Immunologists.

He is married to Grete Sønderstrup McDevitt. The couple has four children.

Work

McDevitt has earned special merits in exploring the relationships between immune response and major histocompatibility complex ( MHC). The pathogenetic basis of rheumatoid arthritis are decades of focus of his scientific activity.

Recent work also deal with the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus type I.

The Stanford University School of Medicine awards the Hugh McDevitt Prize for the best dissertation in the field of immunology.