Donald Bellgrau
PhD
- Integrated Department of Immunology
- Phone
- 303-315-8657
- Fax
- 303-315-0119
- Email
- Don.Bellgrau@uchsc.edu
- Gender
- Male
Specialties
Research
Basic Immunology, Immunobiology
Affiliation with University of Colorado Denver
Professor of Immunology and Medicine, Program Leader in Immunology/Immunotherapy
Teaching & Professional Positions
1980-1983: Member of the Scientific Staff, The Basel Institute for Immunology
Professional Memberships/Societies
AAI
AAAS
ADA
Publications by This Author
Link to Faculty Publications
Link to PubMed for more papers
Research Interests
Immunobiology of autoimmunity and cancer.
We are focused on the role of peripheral T cell regulation in the generation of autoimmunity and development of autoreactivity that might be of benefit as a tumor therapy. We are also studying a whole yeast based biologic.
Education & Training
Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- PhD, Immunology, 1978
Fellowships
- University of Uppsala (Sweden)
- American Cancer Society Fellow, 1980
- University of Uppsala (Sweden)
- Damon Runyan Cancer Fellow, 1979
Awards & Recognition
Member Comparative Medicine Study Section
Founding Scientist, GlobeImmune Inc
Recent or Important Publications
Bellgrau, D. 2005 Can getting excited over nothing provoke autoimmunity? Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 552:311-6.
Lu, Y., Bellgrau, D., Dwyer-Nield, L.D., Malkinson, A.M., Duke, R.C., Rodell, T.C. and Franzusoff, A. 2004. Mutation-selective tumor remission with Ras-targeted, whole yeast-based immunotherapy. Cancer Research 64:5084-88.
Lang, J., Kominski, D., *Bellgrau, D. *Scheinman, R (*equivalent senior authors) 2004. Partial activation leads to premature death of T cells harboring an Ian gene mutation. Eur. J. of Immunology 34, 2396-406.
Modiano, J.F.; Sun, J., Lang, J., Vacano, G., Patterson, D., Chan, D.Franzusoff, A.,Gianani, R.,., Meech, S.J., Duke, R. and Bellgrau, D. 2004 Fas ligand dependent suppression of autoimmunity via recruitment and subsequent termination of activated T cells. Clinical Immunology 112:54-65.
Moore, J., Scheinman, R. and Bellgrau, D. 2001 The generation of a novel T cell activation state controlled by a diabetogenic gene. J. of Immunology 166:241-248.
