Ivan Roitt

Ivan Maurice Roitt ( born September 30, 1927) is a British immunologist who is a pioneer in autoimmune diseases.

Roitt studied from 1949 Chemistry at the University of Leeds and from 1950 in Oxford ( Balliol College) with the PhD degree ( D.Phil. ) 1953. Followed in 1953, a bachelor's degree in physiology. In the same year he moved to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. 1968 to 1992 he was Professor and Head of the Department of Immunology at the University College London (formerly Middlesex Hospital Medical School), where he was from 1965 Reader. 1973 to 1992 he was Head of the Division of Rheumatology Research. Since 1994 he is Professor Emeritus. He is Director of the Centre for Investigative and Diagnostic Oncology.

He recognized the mid-1950s at the Middlesex Hospital with Peter Campbell and Deborah Doniach the character of Hashimoto 's thyroiditis as an autoimmune disease in general and the concept of organ-specific autoimmune diseases. In collaboration with Doniach they also explored Pernicious anemia and primary biliary cirrhosis as an autoimmune disease. He is the author of a widely issued textbook of immunology in the UK.

In 1964 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award. In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (1993) and Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1974 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.

In 1968 he was awarded a D.Sc. Oxford University.

Writings

• Peter Delves: Roitt 's Essential Immunology, 10th Edition, Blackwell Scientific Publishing 2001 ( first Oxford: Blackwell, 1971)
• Jonathan Brostoff, David K. Male Immunology, Harper and Row / Lippincott, 1989, 6th Edition Mosby 2001 German translation: Short Textbook of Immunology, Thieme Verlag, 3rd edition 1995