Medical Immunology, 7th Edition

About

Gabriel Virella obtained his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Lisbon Portugal in 1967 and 1974. He did post-doctoral studies in Immunology at the Department of Experimental Pathology University of Birmingham England (1968-69) and at the National Institute for Medical Research Mill Hill London England (1969-1970). From 1970 to 1975 was a Researcher at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science Oeiras Portugal. He moved to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1975 where he is an Emeritus Professor of Immunology and Microbiology. He has published 260 articles in topics related primarily to immunology with particular emphasis on the involvement of autoimmune phenomena in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. He has described original techniques for the isolation and characterization of antigen-antibody complexes immunoassays for tetanus and diphtheria antibodies and for the assay of modified LDL and corresponding antibodies. In 1989 he was co-recipient with Drs. Christoph Gisinger and Maria F. Lopes Virella of the Squibb Award of the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine for the work entitled Metabolic effects of Lipoprotein Immune Complexes in Macrophages. He co-edited a first edition of Introduction to Medical Immunology in 1986 and became the single editor of the 3rd edition in 1993. The 4 ed. (1999) was translated to the Italian. He has now edited the 7th Ed. of Medical Immunology. In addition he published NMS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 3rd Ed Williams&Wilkins 1997; and NMS Q&A Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Diseases Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1999. He was Section Editor of Clinical Immunology from 1989 to 2003. During his tenure at the Medical University of South Carolina he received numerous teaching awards from the students the Health Science Foundation Teaching Excellence Award MUSC in 1996 and 2006 Governor's Distinguished Professor Award in 1996 and 2006 the National Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award in 2003 and cited as Cited as Master Teacher by the Board of Trustees of The Medical University of S.C. in 2007.