Ivan Roitt

Ivan Maurice Roitt (born September 30, 1927) is a British immunologist who is a pioneer in autoimmune diseases.

Roitt first studied chemistry at the University of Leeds from 1949, and from Oxford (Balliol College) in 1950. He graduated in physiology in 1953. In 1953 he received a bachelor's degree in physiology. In the same year, he moved to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. From 1968 to 1992 he was professor and head of the Faculty of Immunology at University College London (formerly Middlesex Hospital Medical School), where he was a reader since 1965. From 1973 to 1992 he was head of the Department of Rheumatology Research. Since 1994 he has been Professor Emeritus. He is the Director of the Center for Investigative and Diagnostic Oncology. He recognized the character of Hashimoto's thyroiditis as an autoimmune disease in the middle of the 1950s at the Middlesex Hospital, together with Peter Campbell and Deborah Doniach, and in general the concept of organs-specific autoimmune diseases. In collaboration with Doniach, she also studied pernicious anemia and primary biliary cirrhosis as autoimmune disease. He is the author of a widely published textbook of immunology in Great Britain.

In 1964 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award. In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (1993) and honorary member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1974, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.

In 1968 he received a D.Sc. the University of Oxford. Edit source text mit Cedric Mims, John Playfair, Rosamund Williams, Derek Wakelin: Medical Microbiology, Mosby 1998 Editor with Peter Delves Encyclopedia of Immunology, 3 volumes, Academic Press 1992 Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): GND: 138601704 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: n50048195 | VIAF: 108123036 | Wikipedia People Search

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