14 Facts About Philippa Marrack

Philippa Marrack was born in Ewell, England on 28 June 1945.

Philippa Marrack's father served in the Royal Navy, so her family moved frequently throughout her childhood.

Outside of science, Philippa Marrack enjoys playing the piano, as well as running along the Platte River with her Labradors.

Philippa Marrack then moved to La Jolla, San Diego with her first husband and completed postdoctoral work with Richard Dutton at the University of California, San Diego.

Philippa Marrack obtained an associate professorship at the University of Rochester, followed by faculty positions at the National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado and the University of Colorado Denver.

Philippa Marrack learned that destructive cells that fail to be destroyed can cause autoimmune diseases like AIDS, diabetes, Multiple sclerosis, and lupus.

Philippa Marrack's pioneering and revolutionary work isolating the T-cell receptor and describing how T cells protect against infection, drive autoimmune and allergic diseases, and play a possible role in rejection of cancers, has contributed greatly to the current understanding of vaccines, HIV, and immune disorders in the medical field.

Philippa Marrack has served on editorial boards and many scientific journals including Cell, Science, and the Journal of Immunology.

Philippa Marrack has served on various boards and panels for the American Cancer Society, the National Institutes of Health, and the Burroughs Welcome Fund.

From 1986 to 2017, Philippa Marrack was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

From 1995 to 2002, Philippa Marrack served on the American Association of Immunologists Council and served as president of the American Association of Immunologists from 2000 to 2001.

Philippa Marrack has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States since 1989 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in Great Britain since 1997.

Philippa Marrack is the current Ida and Cecil Green professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Research at National Jewish Health and a distinguished professor at the University of Colorado Denver.

Philippa Marrack joined the faculties of National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1979.