Richard J. Hodes

Experimental Immunology Branch
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America

Scientist Immunology
Biography

Dr. Hodes received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed a research fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital before coming to the NIH. He is chief of the Immune Regulation Section of the Experimental Immunology Branch as well as director of the National Institute on Aging. 

Research Intrest

Cell Biology, Immunology 

List of Publications
Weng NP, Levine BL, June CH, Hodes RJ (1995) Human naive and memory T lymphocytes differ in telomeric length and replicative potential. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92: 11091-11094.
Hathcock KS, Laszlo G, Pucillo C, Linsley P, Hodes RJ (1994) Comparative analysis of B7-1 and B7-2 costimulatory ligands: expression and function. J. Exp. Med. 180: 631-640.
Hathcock KS, Laszlo G, Dickler HB, Bradshaw J, Linsley P, Hodes RJ (1993) Identification of an alternative CTLA-4 ligand costimulatory for T cell activation. Science 262: 905-907.
Jenkinson SR, Williams JA, Jeon H, Zhang J, Nitta T, et al. (2013) TRAF3 enforces the requirement for T cell cross-talk in thymic medullary epithelial development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110: 21107-21112
Watanabe M, Moon KD, Vacchio MS, Hathcock KS, Hodes RJ (2014) Downmodulation of Tumor Suppressor p53 by T Cell Receptor Signaling Is Critical for Antigen-Specific CD4(+) T Cell Responses. Immunity 40: 681-691.