Jacques Banchereau, PhD: a conversation with Michael Ramsay, MD, president of Baylor Research Institute
Jacques Banchereau, PhD, and Michael A. E. Ramsay, MD
Dr. Jacques Banchereau is director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) and holds the Caruth Chair for Transplantation Immunology Research. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Paris in 1980 and later served as director of the Schering-Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research in Dardilly, near Lyon, France. While there, he discovered, with his colleagues at DNAX in California, a large panel of novel interleukins, molecules that assist in regulating T-cell functions. He was among the first to discover how to grow human dendritic cells. Dr. Banchereau came to Baylor in 1996 to develop BIIR. He has served on the National Institutes of Health's Experimental Immunology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
He has authored or coauthored more than 260 papers in major international journals and 160 book chapters and reviews; many of his publications are highly cited. Dr. Banchereau is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific conferences. His research interests focus on human immunology, particularly dendritic cell biology, genomic approaches to the diagnosis of human diseases, the pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases and cancer, and the design of novel vaccines.
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