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Laurie H. Glimcher is an American physician-scientist and dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. In September 2015 she resigned from the Board of the New York Blood Center in the midst of a public scandal because she authorized 66 chimpanzees to die of starvation and dehydration after being used as biomedical research subjects for 30 years. She succeeded Antonio M. Gotto Jr. in January 2012.〔 She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to her joining Weill Cornell, Glimcher was the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.〔(official p. at Harvard )〕 Clinically, she is a specialist in osteoporosis.〔 She received her bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1972 and her M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1976. Her research, according to her biography at Harvard, "uses biochemical and genetic approaches to elucidate the molecular pathways that regulate CD4 T helper cell development and activation. ... The Glimcher laboratory defined the genetic bases of both IL-4 and IFNg expression in T cells. They identified the proto-oncogene c-maf as the transcription factor responsible for Th2-specific IL-4 expression ()...discovered the first Th1-specific transcription factor, T-bet and demonstrated that this single factor is a master-regulator of IFNg gene expression and the Th1 phenotype." 〔 She is reported by the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' to have " extensive ties to two pharmaceutical companies, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb''. According to the ''New York Times'', since 1997 she has been on the Board of Bristol-Myers Squibb, and "received $244,500 in compensation for 2010" and "1.4 million in deferred share units" 〔 Her research at Harvard has been partially funded by a three-year contract with Merck, "the company that makes Fosamax".〔 She is also on the Board of the Waters Corporation, a lab equipment manufacturer.〔 In this article, she "defended her outside interests, saying they presented no conflict as long as they were transparent. She said she wanted to 'leverage the strengths of everyone,' whether scientists, pharmaceutical companies or biotechnology companies. 'There should be no silos between all of these different strengths,' " 〔 Glimcher became the object of protests in the fall of 2015, which claimed she abandoned 66 chimpanzees in Liberia with no food and water after conducting 30 years of research on the chimps. The chimps were subjects of research conducted by the New York Blood Center. During the wake of the protests, Laurie resigned her post from New York Blood Center. ==Memberships== *Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, *Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences *Member of the National Academy of Sciences. *former President of American Association of Immunologists. *Member of advisory boards at * *American Asthma Foundation, * *Immune Diseases Institute, * *Health Care Ventures, * *Burroughs-Wellcome Fund * *Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center *Board of Directors of * *Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Corporation * *the Waters Corporation 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurie Glimcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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