Dr. William E. Paul National Institutes of Health, USA

Dr. William E. Paul was a renowned immunologist, best known for his work on cytokine biology including the discovery of interleukin-4. An extensive body of research on this cytokine has established it as the critical regulator of allergic inflammatory diseases and for establishing the mechanisms through which naïve CD4 T... read morecells differentiated into Th effector cells. Dr. Paul was Chief of the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and founding editor in chief of the Annual Review of Immunology. He sadly passed away in September 2015.