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Prof David HAFLER

 

Chair, Department of Neurology,

William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology and
Professor of Immunobiology,

Yale University, United States of America
 

• Speaker, Immunotherapy Plenary
• Speaker, Immunotherapy Symposium

 

 


 

Dr Hafler is the William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor and Chairman Department of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, and is the Neurologist-in-Chief of the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He graduated magna cum laude in 1974 from Emory University, with combined B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in biochemistry, and the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1978. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins followed by a neurology residency at Cornell Medical Center-New York Hospital in New York. 

 

Dr Hafler was trained in immunology at the Rockefeller University and then at Harvard, where he joined the faculty in 1984. He became the Breakstone Professor of Neurology at Harvard and was a founding associate member of the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2009, he moved to Yale as the Chair of the Department of Neurology. Dr Hafler is a clinical scientist with a research interest in the mechanism of multiple sclerosis (MS) with over 370 publications in the field of MS, autoimmunity and immunology. He is a co-founder of the International MS Genetic Consortium, a group that identified the genes causing MS. 

 

Dr Hafler has been elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Alpha Omega Society, and was a Weaver Scholar of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). He is a member of the editorial boards for Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Journal of Experimental Medicine. He is also co-founder of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies and leads the National Institutes of Health Autoimmunity Prevention Center Grant at Yale. Dr Hafler was a Jacob Javits Merit Award Recipient and has won many awards including the 2010 John Dystel Prize for MS research from the American Academy of Neurology and NMSS.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
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