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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: John Fahey papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1862
Physical Description:
24 Linear Feet
(58 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1970-2009
Abstract: John L. Fahey can be considered one of the founding fathers of the field of clinical immunology and was the founding president
of the Clinical Immunology Society in 1986. He discovered Immunoglobulin D (IgD) while at NIH and delineated other classes
of immunoglobulins. Throughout his career, he engaged in international education and training in immunology, building research
capacity for HIV/AIDS in developing countries. One of his major contributions in the fight against AIDS has been his research
in the interaction of the immune system and the nervous system, pointing out the complexity of the disease. Fahey helped to
establish several UCLA Institutes, such as the NIH-funded Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease
(CIRID), initiated in 1978. The Fahey collection spans the period 1970 to 2009 and consists primarily of correspondence relating
to grant applicants and applicants, research programs, Immunology conferences, between colleagues and researchers in the field,
and national and international HIV/AIDS research. Much of the collection relates to programs and ties with India, and there
are several grant applications, biographical sketches and various program outlines.
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English
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[Identification of item], John Fahey Papers (Collection 1862). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of John Fahey, 2010.
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Processed by Daniella Perry in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli,
2010.
The processing of this collection was generously supported by
Arcadia
funds.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9966032163606533
Dr. John L. Fahey, born September 8, 1924, is an immunologist, researcher, and educator. He received his MS in Physiology
at Wayne State Medical School in Detroit, 1949, and his MD at Harvard Medical School in Boston, 1951. Fahey received medical
training and research experience at Wayne College of Medicine in Detroit, Harvard Medical School and other research centers
in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. As a Senior Investigator for the United States Public Health Service at the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) from 1953-1959 he established the Clinical Research Laboratory and new methods for plasma protein analysis.
While at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1970s, he discovered Immunoglobulin D (IgD), delineated and characterized
the important classes of human immunoglobulins and established an Immunology Branch in NCI. At UCLA in the 1980s, he generated
a community of clinical and laboratory scientists focusing on the role of the immune system, which led to the discovery of
AIDS at UCLA.
Dr. Fahey can be considered one of the founding fathers of the field of clinical immunology and was the founding president
of the Clinical Immunology Society in 1986. Much of Fahey's work has been gathering phenomenological data about disease process
and correlating it to alterations in pathogenesis. Throughout his career, especially in the 1990's and the first decade of
the 21st century, he engaged in international education and training in immunology and built research capacity for HIV/AIDS
in developing countries. Nicholson was responsible for several interdisciplinary clinical and basic science training grants
to UCLA and helped foster the subspecialty of clinical immunology in the Journal of Immunology.
Fahey became Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (later Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics)
at UCLA in 1971, with a joint appointment the Department of Medicine; he became Director at the UCLA Advanced AIDS International
Training and Research Program/India; Director, Center for International Research in Immunology and Disease at UCLA; Program
Area Co-Director, AIDS in India Program, UCLA AIDS Institute; Head of the Tumor Immunology Program Area at the Jonsson Comprehensive
Cancer Center (UCLA), Director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology and Disease (CIRID) at UCLA and
Associate director for the UCLA AIDS Institute. John Fahey was one a leading, having published over 400 articles related to
Immunology and AIDS research, and mentored more than 70 national and International postdoctoral scientists in biomedical research.
The John L. Fahey collection spans the period 1970 to 2009, consisting primarily of correspondence about grant programs, between
colleagues and researchers in Immunology, about Immunology conferences, and national and international HIV/AIDS research.
Fahey helped to establish several UCLA Institutes, such as the NIH-funded Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunology
and Disease (CIRID), initiated in 1978. CIRID focuses on research and capacity-building educational programs with India, thus
the majority of the collection includes correspondence with Indian colleagues and researchers. Correspondence discusses programs
and ties with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
Fahey also helped establish the UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) in 1988, with the objective
of training health professionals from developing countries in multidisciplinary research for prevention of HIV infection,
transmission and disease progression, and effective clinical management of HIV-infected individuals. Some correspondence thus
relates to other developing nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The collection includes many grant applications, biographical
sketches and correspondence of Fogarty recipients, as well as program details. Other institutes referenced in the collection
are the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA AIDS Institute/Center for AIDS Research, UCLA Clinical Immunology Research
Laboratory (CIRL), the Concern Foundation and the International Union of Immunological Societies. In addition, there is extensive
correspondence relating to Fahey's international travel for conferences and other HIV/AIDS research programs.
Arranged in the following series:
- Funding Agencies
- Training Manuals
- International Travel
- India
- UCLA Institutes
- International Societies and Correspondence.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Fahey, John L.--Archives.