Bishop to serve as NIH section chair
Dr. Gail Bishop, Holden Chair of Cancer Biology and Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Internal Medicine, was selected to serve as chairperson of the Transplantation, Tolerance, and Tumor Immunology Study Section for the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review. She will serve a term beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 2010.
Members of this group are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline, as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant activities, achievements and honors.
Bishop, who joined the College in 1989, conducts research focusing on molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte activation.