Jorge Kalil
Brazil
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| | Fellow | Medical and Health
Sciences | Brazil | jkalil@usp.br |
| Biography | | Dr. Kalil obtained
his MD (1977) and Doctorat d'Etat (Biologie Humaine, 1982) in Paris. He worked
on the structure and function of HLA class II molecules using monoclonal
antibodies. In Brazil, he became director of the Lab. of Immunology at the
Heart Inst., School of Medicine, Univ. of São Paulo (FMUSP). In 1991, he took a
sabbatical as Director of the Tissue Typing Lab. at Stanford. He has been
Advisor to the Ministry of Health in Brazil and founded the Brazilian Society
for Organ Transplantation. He is a Full member of the Brazilian Academy of
Sciences and received the Medal of Natl. Scientific Merit in 1998. He chairs
the Inst. for the Investigation of Immunology (Millennium Institutes). He is
Full Prof. of Medicine and Head of the Division of Clinical Immunology and
Allergy (FMUSP), Council member of IUIS and Pres. of the Intl. Congress of Immunology, Rio de Janeiro, 2007. |
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