Summary
Carl F. Nathan is the chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a former dean of the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University. Some of his most notable work has been in the characterization of IFNγ, TGF-β, and TNFα in immunology. The Nathan lab studies the immune response to M. tuberculosis.
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Career edit
Nathan graduated from Harvard College in 1967, and Harvard Medical School in 1972. After an internal medicine residency, he did a fellowship in oncology. He was a professor at the Rockefeller University from 1977–1986, before moving to Cornell.[1] He has been the chair of the department of microbiology and immunology since 1998.[2] His lab is in the Belfer Research Building.[3]
Nathan was involved in the discovery of the roles of IFNγ, TGF-β, and TNFα in macrophages.[1][4]
Nathan was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1983 and the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.[5] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.[6] He received the Robert Koch Prize in 2009 and the Anthony Cerami Award in Translational Medicine in 2013.[7]