Susan L. Swain
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Harvard Medical School (PhD)
pathology
Susan L. Swain | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Harvard Medical School (PhD) |
| Awards | AAI Lifetime Award (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | immunology pathology |
| Institutions | UCSD (1976-1996) Trudeau Institute (1996-2010) U. Mass. Medical School (2010-) |
Susan L. Swain is a professor of pathology and former director and president of the Trudeau Institute, NY. She was president of the American Association of Immunologists in 2004/5.
Swain was born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father was a professor of mathematics; her mother, a journalist.[1] She attended Oberlin College, majoring in biology, and received her Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard Medical School. In 1976 she took her first academic appointment as lecturer and research biologist at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. She stayed at UCSD, becoming professor of biology in 1989, until her appointment as director and Edward C. Brewster Chair of the Trudeau Institute (1996–2007). She also served as president (2003–2007) and president emeritus (2008–2010) of the Trudeau Institute. Since 2010 she has been professor of pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.[2]
She was president of the American Association of Immunologists in 2004/5 and served on the AAI council from 1999 to 2004.[3]
