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Charles A. Dinarello, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine in Denver. Until 1996, he was Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and a staff physician at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston. Dr. Dinarello received his medical degree from Yale University and his clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1971 to 1974 he was a clinical associate and from 1975 to 1977 a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Dr. Dinarello has published over 500 original research articles on cytokines, particularly Interleukin-1 and Tumor Necrosis Factor. The Institute for Scientific Information listed him as the world's fourth most cited scientist (all science) for the 20 years (1983-2003). He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1998 and is currently a member of the editorial board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Dinarello has trained over 40 investigators, many of whom are recognized experts in their fields. He has served on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is currently on the Board of Advisors of the Alliance for Lupus Research. He was Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (1989-1990) and President of the International Cytokine Society (1995-1996). The recipient of multiple prestigious awards for his contributions to the field of infectious diseases and cytokines, he received Germany's Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine in 1993. He donated the entire prize money ($125,000) to universities and research institutes in the United States and Israel, and established the Sheldon M. Wolff Professorship at Tufts University to honor his late mentor. In 1996, he received the Ludwig Heilmeyer Gold Medal of the Society for Internal Medicine (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) for his contributions to progress in internal medicine. He is also the recipient of the Chirone International Prize from the Italian Academy of Medicine. Dr. Dinarello has received honorary doctorates from the University of Marseille (France), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and University of Frankfurt (Germany). In 2006, he received the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Award for Medical Research Excellence (United Arab Emirates). | 