Medical Advisory Board

Dr. Jiaoti Huang

Chair – Pathology
at Duke University

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Dr. Jiaoti Huang

Chair - Pathology at Duke University

Dr. Jiaoti Huang earned his medical degree from Anhui Medical University in 1983 and a Master’s degree in Pharmacology from the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Beijing in 1986. He earned his PhD from New York University School of Medicine (1987-1990). He was a Leukemia Society of America Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU and Yale University. He did residency training in pathology at NYU School of Medicine and a fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He became an assistant professor at the University of Rochester in July 2000 and rose to the rank of full professor in 2007. Dr. Huang moved to UCLA in 2008 and came to Duke University at the beginning of 2016. He is currently Professor and Chairman of Department of Pathology, as well as Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University. He is also a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.

Dr. Huang is an expert surgical pathologist and prostate cancer researcher. His clinical expertise is in the pathologic diagnosis of genitourinary tumors. His research laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms, biomarkers, imaging and novel therapies for advanced prostate cancer. His research laboratory is a leader in studying neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer and molecular pathogenesis of prostatic small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. Dr. Huang has published 200 research papers, review articles and book chapters. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, American Cancer Society, Prostate Cancer Foundation, and Stand Up to Cancer.

Dr. Thomas Montine

Chair – Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine

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Dr. Thomas Montine

Chair – Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Montine received his education at Columbia University (BA in Chemistry), the University of Rochester (PhD in Pharmacology), and McGill University (MD and CM). His postgraduate medical training was at Duke University, and he was junior faculty at Vanderbilt University where he was awarded the Thorne Professorship in Pathology. In 2002, Dr. Montine was appointed as the Alvord Endowed Professor in Neuropathology and Director of the Division of Neuropathology at the University of Washington. He was Director of the University of Washington Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, one of the original 10 Centers in the US, and passed that responsibility to able colleagues. In 2010, Dr. Montine was appointed Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington. In 2016, Dr. Montine was appointed Chair of the Department of Pathology at Stanford University and the Stanford Medicine Endowed Professor in Pathology.

Dr. Montine is the founding Director of the Pacific Udall Center, one of 9 NINDS-funded Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research. Dr. Montine is among the top recipients of NIH funding for all Department of Pathology faculty in the United States.

Dr. Abul Abbas

Chair – Pathology at University of California, San Francisco

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Dr. Abhul Abbas

Chair – Pathology at University of California, San Francisco

Abhul K. Abbas received his medical degree in India, completed training in Pathology at Harvard and joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he rose to become Professor of Pathology and Head of the Immunology Research Division. In 1999, after twenty years on the Harvard faculty, he moved to the University of California at San Francisco as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology. Dr. Abbas has received several honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Rous-Whipple Award and Robbins Educator Award of the American Society of Investigative Pathology. He has served as one of the founding Editors and Associate Editor of Immunity, Associate Editor and Section Editor for The Journal of Immunology, Associate Editor of Cell, Consulting Editor of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and founding Editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. From 2011-2013, he was the President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS).

Dr. Abbas’ research interests are in Immunology, with a focus on the control of immune responses and the causes of autoimmunity. His laboratory has used experimental models to analyze the generation and maintenance of regulatory T cells. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and invited reviews, and is the author of four widely read textbooks, two in Immunology and two in Pathology. He has taught Immunology at Harvard Medical School and UCSF, and has organized and conducted Immunology courses worldwide.