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RICHARD M. LOCKSLEY, MD

Marion and Herbert Sandler Distinguished Professorship in Asthma Research, UCSF
Member, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS), Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS), and Immunology Graduate Program, UCSF

CONTACT

locksley@medicine.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-5859 (voice)
(415) 476-9364 (fax)

Box 0654, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0654

EDUCATION

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, B.A., 1970, Biochemistry
Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, M.D., 1976, Medicine
Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA, 1976-80, Resident, Chief Resident
Univ. Wash. School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 1980-83, Infectious Diseases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1986-2003

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

1988-93

Member and Chair (1991-93), Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section, NIH

1991-94

Co-Director, Immunology Section, Biology of Parasitism Course, Woods Hole, MA

1994-99

Chair, Parasitology Pathogenesis Committee, WHO, Geneva

1995-present

Council, Chair (1998), Midwinter Conference of Immunologists, Asilomar

1995-2001

Faculty, Assoc. of American Immunology Annual Course, Advanced Immunology

1997-present

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF

1998-2001

Member, Chair (2000-2001), US-Japan Immunology Board, NIH

2003-present

Director, Sandler Center for Basic Asthma Research

HONORS & AWARDS

American Society for Clinical Investigation; American Association of Physicians

1992-97

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholar in Molecular Parasitology

1994

Bailey K. Ashford Medal, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

2001-

Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Global Infectious Diseases

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Reiner SL, ZE Wang, F Hatam, P Scott, RM Locksley. Th1 and Th2 cell antigen receptors in experimental leishmaniasis. Science 259:1457-60, 1993.

Locksley RM, SL Reiner, F Hatam, DR Littman, N Killeen. Helper T cells without CD4: control of leishmaniasis in CD4-deficient mice. Science 261:1448-51, 1993.

Reiner SL, RM Locksley. The regulation of immunity to Leishmania major. Annu Rev Immunol 13:151 77, 1995.

Mougneau E, F Altare, AE Wakil, S Zheng, T Coppola, ZE Wang, R Waldmann, RM Locksley, N Glaichenhaus. Expression cloning of a protective Leishmania antigen. Science 268:563-6, 1995.

Fearon DT, RM Locksley. The instructive role of innate immunity in the acquired immune response. Science 272:50-4, 1996.

Fowell DJ, J Magram, CW Turck, N Killeen, RM Locksley. Impaired Th2 subset development in the absence of CD4. Immunity 6:559-69, 1997.

Bix M, Locksley RM. Independent and epigenetic regulation of the interleukin 4 alleles in CD4+ T cells. Science 281:1352-4, 1998.

Grunig G, M Warnock, AE Wakil, R Venkayya, F Brombacher, DM Rennick, D Sheppard, M Mohrs, DD Donaldson, RM Locksley, DB Corry. Requirement for IL-13 independently of IL-4 in experimental asthma. Science 282:2261-3, 1998.

Pingel S., P Launois, DJ Fowell, CW Turck, S Southwood, A Sette, N Glaichenhaus, JA Louis, RM Locksley. Altered ligands reveal limited plasticity in the T cell response to a pathogenic epitope. J Exp Med 189:1111-20, 1999.

Fowell DJ, K Shinkai, XC Liao, AM Beebe, RL Coffman, DR Littman, RM Locksley. Impaired NFATc translocation and failure of Th2 development in itk-deficient CD4+ T cells. Immunity 11:399-409, 1999.

Symula D, KA Frazer, Y Ueda, P Denefle, ME Stevens, ZE Wang, RM Locksley, EM Rubin. Functional screening of an asthma QTL in YAC transgenic mice. Nature Genetics 23:241-4, 1999.

Shinkai K, RM Locksley. CD1, tuberculosis and the evolution of MHC molecules. J Exp Med 191:907-14, 2000.

Lacy DA, ZE Wang, DJ Symula, CJ McArthur, EM Rubin, KA Frazer, RM Locksley. Faithful expression of the human 5q31 cytokine cluster in transgenic mice. J Immunol 164:4569-74, 2000.

Loots GG, RM Locksley, CM Blankespoor, ZE Wang, W Miller, EM Rubin, KA Frazer. Identification of a coordinate regulator of interleukins 4, 13 and 5 by cross-species sequence comparsions. Science 288:136-40, 2000.

Kelly BL, RM Locksley. Coordinate regulation of the IL-4, IL-13 and IL-5 cytokine cluster in Th2 clones revealed by allelic expression patterns. J Immunol 165:2982-6, 2000.

Grogan JL, M Mohrs, B Harmon, DA Lacy, JW Sedat, RM Locksley. Early transcription and silencing of cytokine genes underlie polarization of T helper cell subsets. Immunity 14:205-15, 2001.

Locksley RM, N Killeen, MJ Lenardo. The TNF and TNF receptor superfamilies: integrating mammalian biology. Cell 104:487-501, 2001.

Mohrs M, K Shinkai, K Mohrs, RM Locksley. Analysis of type 2 immunity in vivo with a biscistronic IL-4 reporter. Immunity 15:303-11, 2001.

Mohrs M, C Blankespoor, Z Wang, G Loots, V Afzal, H Hadeiba, K Shinkai, EM Rubin, RM Locksley. Deletion of a coordinate regulator of type 2 cytokine expression in mice. Nature Immunol. 2:842-7, 2001.

Davies SJ, JL Grogan, RB Blank, KC Lim, RM Locksley, JH McKerrow. Modulation of blood fluke development in the liver by unconventional hepatic CD4+ lymphocytes. Science 294:1358-61, 2001.

Riese RJ, G-P Shi, J Villadangos, D Stetson, C Driessen, A-M Lennon-Dumenil, C-L Chu, Y Naumov, SM Behar, H Ploegh, RM Locksley, HA Chapman. Regulation of CD1 function and NK1.1+ T cell selection by cathepsin S. Immunity 15:909-919, 2001.

Grogan JL, RM Locksley. T helper cell differentiation: on-again, off-again. Curr Opin Immunol 14:366-72.

Baron JL, L Gardiner, S Nishimura, K Shinkai, RM Locksley, D Ganem. Activation of a nonclassical NK T cell subset in a transgenic mouse model of hepatitis B virus infection. Immunity 16:583-594, 2002.

Stetson DB, M Mohrs, V Mallet-Designe, L Teyton, RM Locksley. Rapid expansion and IL-4 expression by Leishmania-specific naive helper T cells in vivo. Immunity 17:191-200, 2002.

Shinkai K, M Mohrs, RM Locksley. Helper T cells regulate type-2 innate immunity in vivo. Nature 420:825-9, 2002.

Bour-Jordan H, JL Grogan, Q Tang, JA Auger, RM Locksley, JA Bluestone. CTLA-4 abrogates the requirement for cytokine-induced signals in Th2 lineage commitment. Nature Immunol 4:182-8, 2003.

Mohrs M, DA Lacy, RM Locksley. Stat signals release activated naive Th cells from an anergic checkpoint. J Immunol 170:1870-6, 2003.

Stetson DB, M Mohrs, RL Reinhardt, JL Baron, ZE Wang, L Gapin, M Kronenberg, RM Locksley. 2003. Constitutive cytokine mRNAs mark NK and NK T cells poised for rapid effector responses. J Exp Med 198:1069-76.

Kelly BL, DB Stetson, RM Locksley. 2003. Leishmania major LACK antigen is required for efficient vertebrate parasitization. J Exp Med 198:1689-1698.

Voehringer D, K Shinkai, RM Locksley. 2004. Type 2 immunity reflects orchestrated recruitment of cells committed to IL-4 production. Immunity 20:267-277.

Xu M, ZE Wang, RM Locksley. 2004. Innate immune responses in peptidoglycan recognition protein-L-deficient mice. Mol Cell Biol (in press).

10/15/04

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