Distinguished Lecturers

2019 – San Diego

Andrea J. Tenner, Univ. of California, Irvine, Complement: primitive yet powerful – new discoveries in immunity and the nervous system
Bruce R. Blazar, Univ. of Minnesota, Stem cell transplantation: restoring immune balance
Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Washington Univ., St. Louis, Clearance of molecules and cells from sites of inflammation

2018 – Austin

Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Treg-mediated immune tolerance in health and disease
Pamela J. Fink, Univ. of Washington Sch. of Med., Educating T cells from the cradle through adolescence
Randolph J. Noelle, Dartmouth Geisel Sch. of Med., A panoramic VISTA of the immune system

2017 – Washington, DC

Giorgio Trinchieri, NCI, NIH, Cancer as a disease of the metaorganism
Ellen A. Robey, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Factors that determine T cell fate in the thymus
Gabriel Núñez, Univ. of Michigan, Pathogens, the microbiota, and immunity at the intestinal barrier

2016 – Seattle

John J. O’Shea, NIAMS, NIH, Cytokine signaling: genes, genomes, and drugs
Susan K. Pierce, NIAID, NIH, How B cells adapt in a changing world
Ulrich H. von Andrian, Harvard Medical School, Career decisions: how T cells remember pathogens

2015 – New Orleans

Dennis R. Burton, Scripps Research Institute, Broadly neutralizing antibodies evolved to counter the structure and variability of HIV and provide a basis for vaccine design
Christine A. Biron, Brown University, Fuzzy borders in innate and adaptive immunity: experience conditions NK and CD8 T cell responses during viral infection
Albert S. Bendelac, University of Chicago, Innate and innate-like lymphocytes

2014 – Pittsburgh

Kristin A. Hogquist, University of Minnesota Center for Immunology, Self reactivity in T cell selection and homeostasis
Ellen V. Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology, Gene regulatory pathways to T cell identity
Mark J. Shlomchik, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, NETworks in lupus: T-B or not T-B, DC is the question

2013 – Honolulu

Ruslan Medzhitov, HHMI, Yale School of Medicine, Inflammation in health and disease
Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The broad impact of NLRs on immunity and beyond
Stephen M. Hedrick, Univ. of California, San Diego, The unique habitat of human beings and how this impacts our understanding of persistent infections, epidemics, and the evolution of memory

2012 – Boston

Anne O'Garra, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Regulation of the immune response in tuberculosis: from mouse models to human disease
Vijay K. Kuchroo, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Transcriptional regulation of Tregs and Th17 cells
David H. Raulet, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Innate natural killer receptors and their ligands: regulation in cancer, infection, inflammatory disease, and steady state

2011 – San Francisco

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Rockefeller Univ., The antibody paradox
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, From PAMPs to DAMPs to SLE
Jason G. Cyster, HHMI, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Lymphocyte migration and the humoral immune response

2010 – Baltimore

Alan Sher, NIAID, NIH, Learning immunoregulation from parasites
Pamela S. Ohashi, Univ. of Toronto, Breaking T cell tolerance to tissue/tumor antigens: a perspective
Mitchell Kronenberg, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Natural killer T cells ignite the immune response to microbes by acting like innate immune cells

2009 –

M. Sykes
J.C. Cambier
A.Y. Rudensky

2008 –

K. Calame
H. Singh
M. K. Jenkins

2007 –

D. R. Littman
M. C. Nussenzweig
A. Rao

2006 –

R. N. Germain
C. C. Goodnow
A. Sharpe

2005 –

B. Beutler
B. J. Fowlkes
R. Locksley

2004 –

K. Bottomly
L. L. Lanier
J. Sprent

2003 –

P. Marrack
K. Karre
R. M. Steinman

2002 –

R. Flavell
E. Unanue
I. Weissman

2001 –

P. J. Bjorkman
A. Lanzavecchia
R. Ahmed

2000 –

R. Zinkernagel
T. Honjo
H. von Boehmer

1999 –

D. Mathis
K. Rajewsky
P. Cresswell

1998 –

P. Doherty
K. Murphy
C. Thompson

1997 –

H. Metzger
D. Capra
A. Weiss

1996 –

M. Bevan
K. Fisher-Lindahl

1995 –

L. Glimcher
O. Witte
F. Alt

1994 –

C.P. Terhorst
R. Perlmutter
P. Greenberg

1993 –

H. Eisen (B-H Lecture)
J. P. Allison

1992 –

H. O. McDevitt (B-H Lecture)
P. Marrack
S. J. Korsmeyer

1991 –

W. C. Greene
P. Leder
L. Hood

1990 –

D. Baltimore (B-H Lecture)
T. Boon (NCI)
S. Gillis

1989 –

J.L. Strominger
C. Griscelli
R. H. Buckley
M. M. Davis

1988 –

S. Tonegawa
H. M. Grey
A. S. Fauci
P. Marrack

1987 –

M. L. Gefter
F. W. Fitch
R. S. Nussenzweig

1986 –

G. Klein
E. S. Vitetta
R. H. Schwartz

1985 –

J.W. Kappler

1984 –

M. D Cooper
J. L. Strominger

1983 –

L. Hood
M. E. Koshland
W. E. Paul
K. F. Austen

1982 –

R. W. Dutton
P.S. Russell
R. Wall

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