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Biography

Barbara Detrick
 

 

   Dr. Barbara Detrick is Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of Immunology Laboratory and the Cytokine Laboratory, in the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH.  Dr. Detrick received her Ph.D. from Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C. and completed her post-doctoral training at the NCI, NIH. Dr. Detrick is a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology (1993) and a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology (ABMLI)(1980).  Currently, she serves as the Chair of the ABMLI and as the President of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI) society.  Dr. Detrick also serves on the editorial board of Clinical & Vaccine Immunology, is the Editor-in-Chief of the 2006 Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology  & is the author of over 90 academic publications & several book chapters in Immunology.

   Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University in 1999, Dr. Detrick directed the Immunology and HLA Laboratories at the George Washington University School of Medicine & the Immunology Section at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  During her 17 years at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, she performed basic research in immunology  & virology (National Cancer Institute & National Eye Institute) and later in her career served as a Scientific Administrator at both the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, at the NIH.  Dr. Detrick's professional interests focus on the discovery and implementation of laboratory tests to evaluate patients with a variety of immunologic disorders.  Her research interests include work on the immunologic and virologic aspects of immune mediated disorders.   Currently, she studies ocular immunology and viral immunopathology with emphasis on a model of retinal degeneration, experimental coronavirus retinopathy.  Recent studies have focused on evaluating role of cytokines in vascular inflammation.

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