Dr. David Nelson earned his undergraduate degree from Washburn University--in his hometown of Topeka, Kansas--and earned his medical degree from Kansas University Medical School.
After an internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in Minneapolis, Dr. Nelson joined NCI's Metabolism Branch as a clinical associate in 1972. He has been with that Branch ever since, and has been chief of its immunophysiology section since 1987.
Dr. Nelson has devoted his career to studying the human immune response
and its abnormalities in congenital and acquired immunodeficiency diseases
associated with cancer.
Dr. Bruce Baum earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, his dental degree at Tufts University, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Boston University.
Dr. Baum joined NIH in 1976 as a staff investigator in the Pulmonary Branch of NHLBI. He then moved to NIA's Laboratory of Molecular Aging, in Baltimore, where he was a senior investigator for three years. He returned to the Clinical Center in 1982 to take the positions of clinical director and chief of the Clinical Investigations and Patient Care Branch of the National Institute of Dental Research. In 1996, he took his present position as chief of the Gene Therapy and Therapeutics Branch of NIDR.
Dr. Baum's research interests include the regulation of salivary gland secretion; aging and oral physiology and health; and the clinical applications of gene transfer technology.
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