Dr. Harry Malech earned his bachelor's degree from Brandeis and his medical degree from Yale. He did his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Malech first came to NIH in 1974 as a research associate with the National Cancer Institute. He returned to Yale for clinical training in infectious diseases, and was appointed assistant professor, then associate professor, of medicine there. After eight years, he returned to NIH to join the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In 1991, Dr. Malech became deputy chief of the Laboratory of Host Defenses.
He is also the coordinator of Gene Transfer Technology for NIAID. His research
has focused on the biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic defects
of the microbicidal oxidative burst of blood neutrophils.
Dr. Perry Blackshear is director of clinical research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Blackshear was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University's Trinity College before earning his medical degree at Harvard. He completed postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Blackshear was an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard for 4 years before becoming chief of the Section of Diabetes and Metabolism at Duke University Medical Center, a position he held for 13 years. He was also a professor of medicine and of biochemistry at Duke before becoming director of the clinical research program at NIEHS in 1997. He maintains academic ties to Duke.
Dr. Blackshear's research interests include the mechanisms of hormone
action, insulin control of cellular processes, and drug-delivery systems.
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