Dennis R. Burton (born 1952) is a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, in the United States. He also works in AIDS vaccine research, and is scientific director of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center there. He sits on the steering committee of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard.
He has a BA in chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in nuclear magnetic resonance in biology from Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
Awards
Jenner Fellowship of the Lister Institute Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology James and Jessie Minor Chair in Immunology NIH Merit Award
Academic and Professional Experience
2015-2017 Chairman, Immunology and Microbial Science (IMS) Scripps Research 1991-2017 Professor, Immunology and Microbial Science (IMS) Scripps Research 2015-2015 Distinguished Lecturer, The American Association of Immunologists 2012 Professor (Joint Appointment), Molecular Biology, Scripps Research 1990-1991 Personal Chair, The University of Sheffield 1989-1991 Visiting Member, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic 1985-1991 Jenner Fellow, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine 1987-1990 Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, The University of Sheffield 1981-1987 Lecturer in Biochemistry, The University of Sheffield 1980-1981 Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford 1979-1981 Medical Research Council Training Fellowship, University of Oxford
Personal life Burton plays football twice a week.
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