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Gerald (Jerry) Nepom received his Bachelors Degree (1972) from Harvard, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1977) and his M.D. (1978) from the University of Washington. After post- doctoral work in immunogenetics at Harvard Medical School, he joinied the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Medical School Faculty in 1982. Beginning in 1985, he founded the Immunology and Diabetes Research Programs at the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), which now includes >200 staff with an annual budget of $26 million.

Ongoing projects in Dr. Nepom’s laboratory are focused on identifying and understanding molecular and genetic mechanisms triggering of autoimmune disorders, particularly type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, and on improving experimental therapies for prevention, intervention and transplantation. Dr. Nepom serves on numerous editorial boards and professional advisory boards relating to molecular immunology, autoimmunity, and immunotherapy.

He is past president of FOCIS, the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, which is the international federation of 40,000 scientists and physicians created to understand and treat immune- based diseases. Dr. Nepom has published over 300 scientific papers in the area of immunology, genetics and autoimmunity.