Kathryn Lee Calame is a professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was formerly the director of their Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies. She was involved in the discovery and characterization of B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein (Blimp-1).
Education
editIn 1962, Calame received a BS in chemistry from the University of Missouri. She received her master's and doctoral degrees from George Washington University.[1]
Career
editIn 1980, she joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine. She moved to the Department of Microbiology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988.[1]
She was a member of the scientific review board for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[2] She is on the board of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.[3]
Honors
edit- 1993 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007 Elected to the Institute of Medicine[4]
Columbia University instituted the annual Calame Lecture in Immunology in 2009.[5] In 2011, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Missouri.[1]
Personal life
editCalame is married to Byron Calame, who retired as deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. They have two children.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "MU Awards Honorary Degree to Cancer Pioneer Kathryn Calame | News Bureau, University of Missouri". munewsarchives.missouri.edu. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Leadership". media.hhmi.org. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Kathryn L Calame". Bloomberg. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ "3 Columbia University Medical Center faculty elected to Institute of Medicine". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Calame Lecture". Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "The Public Editor - New York Times". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 22 September 2020.