News

Faculty and staff announcements

• Dr. Diane Jelinek named a Mayo Clinic Distinguished Educator, 2012.
• Dr. Vanda A. Lennon was appointed as the Dorothy A. Adair Professor by the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, August 2012.
• NIH T32 Predoctoral Training grant, "PhD Program in Basic Immunology," was received by Dr. Larry R. Pease and renewed for its 17th year of funding, July 2012.
• Dr. Diane F. Jelinek succeeds Dr. Larry R. Pease as department chair, 2011.
• Dr. Larry R. Pease was named a Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator, 2011.
• Dr. Hirohito Kita was appointed as the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, 2011.

Recent Ph.D. thesis presentations

• "Class I antigen processing and presentation in breast cancer," by Andrea Henle
• "Functional characterization of the scaffolding protein IQGAP1 in T cells," by Jacquelyn Gorman
• "Identification of an IL-33 target in the mouse bone marrow: Lin-Sca1+cKit-CD25+ cells demystified," by Adipong Brickshawana, Ph.D.

Clinical trials announcements

• Mayo Clinic Gets Fed OK to Test Ovarian, Breast Cancer Vaccines, August 2011
• Mayo Clinic Researchers Use Human Vaccine to Cure Prostate Tumors in Mice, June 2011