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David G. Schatz, Ph.D.

David G. Schatz

Dr. Schatz is also Professor of Immunobiology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale School of Medicine. He received undergraduate degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and in philosophy and politics from Oxford University. His Ph.D. degree and postdoctoral training were done with David Baltimore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.



RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:

David Schatz is interested in understanding the early development of the immune system, particularly the processes that assemble and diversify antigen receptor genes, reactions known as V(D)J recombination and somatic hypermutation.

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HHMI INVESTIGATOR
1991– Present
Yale School of Medicine

Education
bullet icon B.S.-M.S., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
bullet icon M.A., Philosophy and Politics, Oxford University
bullet icon Ph.D., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
bullet icon Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, National Science Foundation
bullet icon AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award
bullet icon MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health
bullet icon Rhodes Scholarship

Research Abstract
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Generating a Diverse Repertoire of Antigen-Specific Receptors During Development of the Immune System

Related Links

AT HHMI

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When our DNA is damaged...

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"Jumping DNA" and the Human Immune System
(08.20.98)

ON THE WEB

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The Schatz Lab
(yale.edu)

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