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Douglas. R.  Green – St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

Doug Green is the Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair of Immunology at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Prior to this he was Head of the Division of Cellular Immunology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. Professor Green received his PhD from Yale University. His research has focused on the process of active cell death and cell survival. His research extends from the role of cell death in the regulation of cancer and immune responses in the whole organism to the fundamental molecular events directing the death of the cell.  He has published over 450 papers, chapters, and books, and is an ISI “highly cited” investigator.  His recent book is “Means to an End:  Apoptosis and Other Cell Death Mechanisms,” published in 2011 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and available at Amazon.