Dr. Carter Van Waes is acting clinical director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. He is also acting chief of the Tumor Biology Section of the Head and Neck Surgery Branch of that institute.
Dr. Van Waes earned his medical degree and Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Chicago. After a general surgery internship at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and a residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he joined NIH in 1993 as a senior staff fellow in the Tumor Biology Section.
Dr. Van Waes's main research focus is the study of the genetic and immunologic pathogenesis and molecular therapy of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
Dr. Ronald Gress is chief of the Transplantation Immunology Section and of the Transplantation Therapy Section of the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Gress earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and did an internship, residency, and oncology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He joined NCI in 1979 as a clinical associate, and has been with them ever since, taking his present positions in 1991 and 1992.
Dr. Gress and his colleagues have focused on identifying and characterizing
thymic-dependent and -independent pathways of T cell regeneration in mice
and humans.
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