Donna L. Farber
Donna Farber did her undergraduate training and received her Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Michigan, and then went on to pursue graduate studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was in graduate school that she first started studying the immune system and her dissertation research was on the characterization of an Fc receptor gene family expressed by rat natural killer cells and macrophages. After graduating, Dr. Farber joined the laboratory of Dr. Kim Bottomly in 1991 in the Section of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine for postdoctoral training in T cell differentiation and T cell memory. Dr. Farber also spent one year (1993-4) as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Oreste Acuto at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France where she was supported by a European molecular biology (EMBO) fellowship to pursue studies in T cell signal transduction.
Dr. Farber joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell biology and Molecular Genetics in the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996, and remained there until 2000, when she was recruited to the faculty in the Department of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. She is currently a Professor of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland school of Medicine, and conducts research in basic immunology including anti-pathogen immunity and transplantation immunology as it relates to T cell differentiation and homeostasis.