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Plenary LectureNF-κB, immunity and inflammationMay 16 (Mon), 17:10-18:00, Rm 103Plenary LecturesDr. Sankar GhoshColumbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, USASankar Ghosh, Ph.D., is the Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology &Immunology and Chairman of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology atColumbia University in New York City. Dr. Ghosh received his Ph.D. in MolecularBiology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, NY in 1988. Hedid his postdoctoral research training under Dr. David Baltimore at the WhiteheadInstitute at MIT in Cambridge, MA from 1989-1991.Dr. Ghosh began his independent research career at Yale University School ofMedicine in 1991, and was a Professor in the Departments of Immunobiology andMolecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, before moving to Columbia in December2008. Dr. Ghosh has served in an advisory capacity for several organizations,including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute, theAdvisory Board of the Center on Immune Receptors at the Karolinska Institute inStockholm, Sweden, a member of the Board of Management of the National Centerfor Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India; the Scientific Review Board of theDamon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation; and the Scientific Review Council ofthe Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He also serves on the editorial board ofmultiple journals including Immunity and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He haspublished more than 100 articles.Dr. Ghosh received the American Society of Immunologists-Pharmingen InvestigatorAward in 2002, and was the recipient of the 2008 Cancer Research Institute-F. W. AltAward for New Discoveries in Immunology. He was elected as a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008, and was also awardeda MERIT Award from the NIH in 2001.2011년도 생화학분자생물학회 연례국제학술대회17