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Mark M. Davis, Ph.D. is Professor at Stanford University. He is well known for identifying the first T-cell receptor genes. He has authored over 350 publications and received numerous awards and honors for his work, including memberships in the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society. He is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and holds the Avery Family Chair of Immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been vice chair and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford and, since 2004, The Director of the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, which has become an international leader in the development of transformative technologies and approaches to better understanding the human immune system and its responses to infectious diseases and autoimmunity.