Doug Green

Doug Green holds the Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair in the Department of Immunology at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Prior to this he was Head of the Division of Cellular Immunology at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology. Doug received his Bsc (’77) and PhD (’81) from Yale University and joined the faculty at the University of Alberta in 1985, La Jolla Institute in 1990, and St. Jude in 2005. His research focusses on active cell death and cell survival, extending from whole organisms to fundamental molecular events in celsl. He has published over 600 papers, chapters, commentaries, and books, and is an ISI “highly cited” investigator. In 2017, he was awarded the Jurg Tschopp prize for research on cell death and the Wilbur Cross medal from Yale. He is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a foreign fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, an honorary Einstein Professor in China, and received an honorary Ph.D. from Univ. Tor Vergata in Rome. His most recent book is “Apoptosis and Other Cell Death Mechanisms: Means to an End,” published in 2018 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. His family, laboratory, and colleagues appear to continue to put up with him.