Charles C.J. Carpenter Jr. (1931-2020)

Charles Janeway Jr.

Charlie Janeway, immunologist, a leading authority on the T cell and creator of our present understanding of the link between innate and acquired immunity, died of cancer on April 12 at his home in New Haven at the age of 60. Charlie obtained his undergraduate and medical degree at Harvard, following in the long family medical tradition. Like other talented young medical scientists at the time ...

Charles A. Janeway, Jr. (1943-2003)

in Sweden under Hans Wig-zell, he joined the Yale faculty in 1977. Charlie's contributions to immunobiology have been profound. He was one of the leading immunologists of his generation, whose ideas formed many of the concepts that today comprise the basis of the field. He made major contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms whereby T cells recognize their cognate antigen. He was an ...

Celebrating the work of William T. Carpenter Jr.

Recollections of Charlie: Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1943-2003)

In Memoriam " …one should always attempt to construct an internal image of the universe of knowledge, and then ask if a given publication can, in any significant way, modify that image "-I used to comment that it often seemed as though Charlie already knew the answers to the various questions being asked in his lab; it simply was our responsibility to devise the experiments that would provide t...

Genes and schizophrenia: from a Festschrift Seminar honoring William T. Carpenter Jr, MD.

Recent data have begun to elucidate the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, as well as provide new insights into the relationships of specific genetic factors across diagnostic boundaries, with specific symptom domains, and in the prediction of antipsychotic treatment response. Not surprisingly, work conducted at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC), led by Dr William Carpenter, h...