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Dan L. Longo, M.D., F.A.C.P., Senior Investigator Chief, Lymphocyte Cell Biology Unit Laboratory of Immunology and Scientific Director, NIA E-mail: longod@grc.nia.nih.gov Bibliography |
Education: |
1970 - A.B., Washington University, honors research in biology 1975 - M.D. cum laude, University of Missouri-Columbia |
Board Certification: |
1978 - Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine 1979 - Diplomate, Subspecialty, Medical Oncology |
Brief Chronology of Employment: |
1974-1975 - Research in the Laboratory of Dr. Victor Herbert, Department of Pathology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 1975-1976 - Medical House Officer, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1976-1977 - Assistant Resident in Medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1975-1977 - Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 1977-1978 - Clinical Associate, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 1978-1980 - Clinical Associate, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, Maryland 1980-1982 - Senior Investigator, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 1982-1985 - Head, Experimental Immunology Section, Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 1985-1995 - Director, Biological Response Modifiers Program, Associate Director, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 1995-Date - Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland |
Military Service: |
Rank - Medical Director (Captain) - 06 grade |
Societies: |
Alpha Omega Alpha, 1974 American Federation for Clinical Research, 1974 Phi Kappa Phi, 1975 American Society for Microbiology, 1977 American College of Physicians, 1978, Fellow, 1982 MKSAP IX Oncology Subspecialty Committee, 1989-1991 MKSAP XII Oncology Subspecialty Committee, Chair, 1998-2000 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1978 New York Academy of Sciences, 1979 American Institute of Nutrition, 1980 American Society for Clinical Nutrition, 1980 American Society of Clinical Oncology, 1980 Program Committee, 1986, 1990, 1995 Awards Committee, 1989-1992 Education Committee, 1995-1997 American Association of Immunologists, 1980 American Association for Cancer Research, 1981 Program Committee, 1991 Awards Committee, 1995 American Society of Hematology, 1984 Scientific Subcommittee on Neoplasia, 1989-1992, Chair 1990 Program Committee, 1994, 1996 American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1985 Clinical Immunology Society, 1987, Councilor 1987-1990 Society for Leukocyte Biology, 1992 International Cytokine Society, 1994 Molecular Medicine Society, Fellow, 1995 American Society for Cell Biology, 1997 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 1998 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 1999 |
Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition: |
1966, University of Missouri Curators Award 1975-76 and 1976-77, Radiology Case-of-the-Week Award, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital |
At the University of Missouri School of Medicine: |
1972-3, Post-Sophomore Fellowship in Pathology 1973, Lange Book Award 1974, Alpha Omega Alpha 1974, Lange Book Award 1975, Phi Kappa Phi 1975, Internal Medicine Award 1987, Young Physician Award (by Alumni Association) 1997, Citation of Merit for Contributions to Medicine (by Alumni Association) |
United States Public Health Service: |
1987, Commendation Medal 1988, Unit Commendation 1992, Outstanding Service Medal 1993, NIH Merit Award 1996, NIH Director's Award |
Other Awards: |
1992, Listing in Good Housekeeping Magazine "400 Best Cancer Doctors", October Issue 1992, Tovi Comet-Walerstein Award, Cancer AIDS and Immunology Research Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel--presented June 6, 1993 1994-1995, Listing in The Best Doctors in America, Second Edition, Edited by Naifeh, S. and Smith, G.W., Woodward/White, Inc. Publishers, pp. 269. 1996-1997, Listing in The Best Doctors in America, Third Edition, Edited by Naifeh, S. and Smith, G.W., Woodward/White, Inc. Publishers |
Plenary or Named Lectures: |
1989 - "Biologic Response Modifiers in Breast Cancer", Plenary Lecture, 12th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, Texas 1992 - "The Development of IL-1 and IL-2 in Cancer Treatment", 1992 Patricia Trost Friedler Oncology Lectureship, Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana 1992 - "Treatment of Aggressive Lymphoma: Recent Progress and Future Prospects", 8th Nagoya International Symposium on Cancer Treatment - Cancer Chemotherapy Challenges for the Future, Nagoya, Japan 1993 - "Rappaport's Legacy: Order from Chaos and Its Influence on the Clinical Approach to Lymphomas", Colloquium on Lymphoproliferative Disease, Honoring Henry Rappaport, M.D., Distinguished Physician on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California 1993 - "The Treatment of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas", Sixth Annual Meltzer Lecture, Atlanta, Georgia 1995 - "Tumor-Induced Alterations in T-Cell Function", 1995 Symposium on Receptor Editing, University of Maryland Immunology Group, Baltimore, Maryland 1995 - Bartell Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego Cancer Center, La Jolla, California 1996 - Jonas Lecture, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 1996 - Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 1997 - Presidential Symposium, American Society of Clinical Oncology 33rd Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado |
Other Academic Activities: |
1985 - 1999 Editor, Clinical Oncology Alert 1987 - 1999 Editor, Cancer Chemotherapy and Biological Response Modifiers Annual 1987 - 1999 Associate Editor, Cancer Research 1987 - present Associate Editor, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1988 - 1995 Associate Editor, Year Book of Oncology 1988 - 1992 Associate Editor, Journal of Immunology 1989 - 1997 Associate Editor, Journal of Immunotherapy 1990 - present Editorial Board, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology 1991 - 1993 Editorial Board, <>Clinical Digest Series-Oncology 1992 - 1996 Associate Editor, Therapeutic Immunology 1993 - 1997 Editorial Board, Blood 1993 - present Editorial Board, International Journal of Oncology 1994 - present Associate Editor, Clinical Cancer Research 1995 - present Editorial Board, Annals of Oncology 1995 - present Editor, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 1995 - present Editor, Cancer Chemotherapy and Biotherapy: Principles and Practice 1996 - 1998 Editorial Board, Oncology 1996 - present Editorial Board, Stem Cells 1997 - 1999 Associate Editor, Cancer Therapeutics 1997 - present Associate Editor, Blood 1998 - present Editorial Board, American Journal of Medicine 1998 - present Section Editor, Aging, Clinical Immunology |
Service on Advisory Boards: |
1994 - present Honorary Medical Board, Lymphoma Research Foundation of America, Los Angeles 1996 - present Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging, Washington, D.C. 1998 - present Medical and Scientific Committee, Leukemia Society of America, New York |
Patents held: |
#5,296,353 - Ochoa, et al. "Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Progressive Immunosuppression, issued 3/22/94 #5,455,032 - Kenny, et al. "Use of Phosphocholine Hapten Conjugates in Vaccines", issued 10/3/95 #5,583,002 - Ochoa, et al. "Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Progressive Immunosuppression," issued 12/10/96 #5,674,492 - Armitage, et al. "Method of Preventing or Treating Disease Characterized by Neoplastic Cells Expressing CD40," issued 10/7/97 #5,725,855 - Ochoa, et al. "Method of Treating Tumors with CD8 Enriched or Depleted or CD4 Enriched or Depleted T-Cell Populations," issued 3/10/98 #5,861,158 - Kwak, et al. "Method and Composition for Transfer of Active Tumor-specific Immunization from an Immunized Allogeneic Bone Marrow Donor," issued 1/19/99 #5,889,143 - Ochoa, et al. "Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Progressive Immunosuppression," issued 3/30/99 #5,965,366 - Ochoa, et al. "Methods of Identifying Patients Having an Altered Immune Status," issued 10/12/99 |
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