Andrew D. Luster
Andrew D. Luster is the Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also directs the Research Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases and is part of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center’s Cancer Immunology program.
Education and career: He earned his B.S. from Duke University in 1981, followed by a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1987 and an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1988. After training at Massachusetts General Hospital, he did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Harvard Medical School genetics department. He started his lab at MGH in 1994 and became division chief and center director in 2000.
Research and impact: Luster’s work helped found the chemokine field, starting with the discovery of CXCL10 (IP-10). His research shows how chemokines regulate immune cell movement during infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and asthma. He has earned numerous honors, including the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Fellowship, NIH MERIT Award, and the Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research, and he is widely recognized for the high impact of his papers.
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