NYU Langone’s Division of Rheumatology in Manhattan Advances Its Mission to Understand Rheumatic Diseases, Improve Patient Outcomes

During his tenure as chair of the division, Dr. Weissmann continued his own research and, along with colleagues, such as Leslie Vosshall now at the Rockefeller Institute and Charles Serhan, now at the Harvard Medical School, spent summers at the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. In July 2015, on his 85th birthday, Dr. Weissmann was recognized for his work and named an MBL Legend.

“The unifying factor of all the research [at the Division] was the molecular biology of inflammation and its associated immune response,” he notes. That foundation forms the core of the Division’s work today.

Gretchen Henkel is a medical journalist based in California.