Background
Summers, Donald Fredrick was born on July 10, 1934 in Pekin, Illinois, United States.
cancer research center administrator
Summers, Donald Fredrick was born on July 10, 1934 in Pekin, Illinois, United States.
Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, Urbana, 1956. Doctor of Medicine with honors, University Illinois, Chicago, 1959.
Intern and resident in internal medicine Harvard medical services Boston City Hospital, 1959-1961. Research associate National International for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1961-1963, postdoctoral fellow Laboratory Biology of Viruses, 1963-1964. Instructor department biochemistry Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, New York, 1964-1966, assistant professor microbiology, immunology and department cell biology, 1966-1968, associate professor, 1969-1973, professor, 1973-1974.
Professor, chairman department cellular, viral and molecular biology University Utah School Medicine, Salt Lake City, 1974-1992. Professor departments microbiology, molecular genetics and medicine University California, Irvine, 1992-1997, senior associate dean research and graduate studies, 1992-1995. Associate director Frederick (Maryland) Cancer Research and Development Center, National Cancer Institute, 1997—2001.
Visiting professor University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, summer 1971. Member advisory panel on personnel American Cancer Society, 1972-1976. Member Fogarty health scientists exchange program, Gdansk, Poland, 1988.
Member board science advisors Invitron Corporation, St. Louis, 1986-1991. Member advisory committee Howard Hughes Institute, 1987-1991. Member vaccine and related biologic products advisory committee Food and Drug Administration, 1988-1992.
Member advisory panel and peer review panel for molecular biology and biochemistry, National Science Foundation, 1995-2001. Speaker, organizer national and international meetings on virology, microbiology, protein chemistry, and biochemistry.
Member American Society Biological Chemistry, American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Virology, American Society for Cell Biology, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.