Gerald Nepom, MD PhD

Dr. Nepom received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Harvard. He attended the University of Washington, receiving his PhD in Biochemistry in 1977 and his MD in 1978. After post-doctoral work in immunogenetics in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, he returned to Seattle, joining the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Medical School Faculty in 1982.

From 1985 through 2015, he was Director of the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI). In April 2010, Dr. Nepom was named Director of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).  Dr. Nepom is currently a Member at BRI. He is also a past president of FOCIS, the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, a world-wide professional organization dedicated to interdisciplinary research and education in translational immunology.