Fahey, John L.

Dr. John L. Fahey, born Sept. 30, 1924, is an immunologist, researcher, and educator. He received his MS in Physiology at Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, 1949, and his MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston, 1951. Fahey received medical training and research experience at Wayne College of Medicine in Detroit, Harvard Medical School and other research centers in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. As a Senior Investigator for the United States Public Health Service at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1953-1959 he established the Clinical Research Laboratory and new methods for plasma protein analysis. While at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1970s, he discovered Immunoglobulin D (IgD), delineated and characterized the important classes of human immunoglobulins and established an Immunology Branch in NCI. At UCLA in the 1980s, he generated a community of clinical and laboratory scientists focusing on the role of the immune system, which led to the discovery of AIDS at UCLA. Dr. Fahey can be considered one of the founding fathers of the field of clinical immunology and was the founding president of the Clinical Immunology Society in 1986. Much of Fahey's work has been gathering phenomenological data about disease process and correlating it to alterations in pathogenesis. Throughout his career, especially in the 1990's and the first decade of the 21st century, he engaged in international education and training in immunology and built research capacity for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Nicholson was responsible for several interdisciplinary clinical and basic science training grants to UCLA and helped foster the subspecialty of clinical immunology in the Journal of Immunology. Fahey became Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (later Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics) at UCLA in 1971, with a joint appointment the Department of Medicine; he became Director at the UCLA Advanced AIDS International Training and Research Program/India; Director, Center for International Research in Immunology and Disease at UCLA; Program Area Co-Director, AIDS in India Program, UCLA AIDS Institute; Head of the Tumor Immunology Program Area at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCLA), Director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease (CIRID) at UCLA and Associate director for the UCLA AIDS Institute. John Fahey was one a leading, having published over 400 articles related to Immunology and AIDS research, and mentored more than 70 national and International postdoctoral scientists in biomedical research.

From the description of Papers, ca. 1970-2009. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 698129896

Biography

Dr. John L. Fahey, born September 30, 1924, is an immunologist, researcher, and educator. He received his MS in Physiology at Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, 1949, and his MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston, 1951. Fahey received medical training and research experience at Wayne College of Medicine in Detroit, Harvard Medical School and other research centers in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. As a Senior Investigator for the United States Public Health Service at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1953-1959 he established the Clinical Research Laboratory and new methods for plasma protein analysis. While at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1970s, he discovered Immunoglobulin D (IgD), delineated and characterized the important classes of human immunoglobulins and established an Immunology Branch in NCI. At UCLA in the 1980s, he generated a community of clinical and laboratory scientists focusing on the role of the immune system, which led to the discovery of AIDS at UCLA.

Dr. Fahey can be considered one of the founding fathers of the field of clinical immunology and was the founding president of the Clinical Immunology Society in 1986. Much of Fahey's work has been gathering phenomenological data about disease process and correlating it to alterations in pathogenesis. Throughout his career, especially in the 1990's and the first decade of the 21st century, he engaged in international education and training in immunology and built research capacity for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Nicholson was responsible for several interdisciplinary clinical and basic science training grants to UCLA and helped foster the subspecialty of clinical immunology in the Journal of Immunology.

Fahey became Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (later Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics) at UCLA in 1971, with a joint appointment the Department of Medicine; he became Director at the UCLA Advanced AIDS International Training and Research Program/India; Director, Center for International Research in Immunology and Disease at UCLA; Program Area Co-Director, AIDS in India Program, UCLA AIDS Institute; Head of the Tumor Immunology Program Area at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCLA), Director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease (CIRID) at UCLA and Associate director for the UCLA AIDS Institute. John Fahey was one a leading, having published over 400 articles related to Immunology and AIDS research, and mentored more than 70 national and International postdoctoral scientists in biomedical research.

From the guide to the John Fahey papers, ca. 1970-2009, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)