Edgar G. Engleman

Engleman earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1967.[3] He completed a M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1971.[3] He was an intern in medicine at Moffitt Hospital, University of California, San Francisco from 1971 to 1972.[3] This was followed by a residency at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco from 1972 to 1973.[3] Engleman was a research associate in the laboratory of biochemistry under Earl Reece Stadtman at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from 1973 to 1976.[3] He was a postdoctoral fellow in immunogenetics and rheumatology under Hugh McDevitt at the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1976 to 1978.[3]

After studying immunology as a post-doctoral fellow, in 1978, Engleman became a faculty member in the department of pathology.[4][3] He was an assistant professor of pathology and medicine.[3] He was promoted to professor with tenure in 1990. The same year, he won an NIH MERIT award.[3]

At Stanford University, Engleman has been researching the immune system and its role in diseases for forty years.[4] Since 1980 he has been the founding director of the Stanford Blood Center,[1] which allowed him to access immune cells (or white blood cells) for his immunological research.[4] He moved into the field of cancer biology.[4] He directs the Engleman Lab, focusing on studying the cellular immunology of cancer.[5] His research was the basis for the first active immunotherapeutic strategy for cancer to be approved by the FDA in 2010.[6]

• Engleman, Edgar G., ed. (1980). Genetic Control of the Human Immune Response: Proceedings a Conference Sponsored by the Kroc Foundation, Santa Ynes Valley, California 28 Jan-1 Feb 1980. Vol. 152. Rockefeller University Press.
• Engleman, Edgar G.; Foung, Steven K. H.; Larrick, James W.; Raubitschek, Andrew A., eds. (1985). Human Hybridomas and Monoclonal Antibodies. Boston, MA: Springer US. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-4949-5. ISBN 978-1-4684-4951-8. S2CID 3005405.