Dennis L Kasper was born on February 23,1943 and is an American microbiologist and immunologist, and the William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School.
17 Facts About Dennis Kasper
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Dennis Kasper leads the Kasper Laboratory within the Blavatnik Institute in the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School.
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Dennis Kasper was executive dean for academic programs at Harvard Medical School and director of the Channing Laboratory Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Dennis Kasper was born on February 23,1943, in Chicago, Illinois to first-generation American parents.
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Dennis Kasper was the first in his family to attend college, going to the University of Illinois, Urbana on a pre-med track, and graduating in 1963 having majored in zoology.
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Dennis Kasper completed his medical training at both the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, New York Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
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Dennis Kasper began his research career at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1969 to 1972.
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Dennis Kasper became an Albee Fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1973, and from 1979 to 1985 was an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Dennis Kasper later received an honorary Master's of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1986.
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Dennis Kasper was director of the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital from 1996 to 2012, and has been William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School since 1989.
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Dennis Kasper was the scientific director at the New England Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Harvard Medical School until 2014.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Dennis Kasper was President of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, and Dennis Kasper was the first chairman of the National Science Advisory Board of Biosecurity from 2005 to 2010.
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Dennis Kasper served as Chairman of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 1989 and 1993.
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Dennis Kasper's research has focused on immunochemistry, and has played a large role in the understanding of the role of the microbiota in the development of the immune system.
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Dennis Kasper's research included elucidating the structure of the nine capsular polysaccharides of B Streptococcus.
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Dennis Kasper's work formed much of the understanding of the pathogenesis of GBS infection, and led to the development of vaccines for 5 major serotypes of the group.
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Dennis Kasper led the discovery and development of glycoconjugate vaccines, currently in clinical trials, for preventing group B streptococcal infections.