- Sterling Professor, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
- Professor, Department of Dermatology; Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Richard Flavell is the Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his BSc with honors in 1967 and his PhD in Biochemistry in 1970 from the University of Hull, England, and completed postdoctoral training in Amsterdam with Piet Borst and in Zurich with Charles Weissmann.
Before joining Yale in 1988, Dr. Flavell held a series of distinguished positions: Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, and President and Chief Scientific Officer of Biogen Research Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Flavell’s research employs transgenic and gene-targeted mouse models to investigate innate and adaptive immunity, T cell tolerance and activation in immunity and autoimmunity, apoptosis, and the regulation of T cell differentiation. His recent work has made important contributions to understanding the immunological basis of celiac disease, fibroinflammatory skin conditions, and graft-versus-host disease.
Dr. Flavell is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
