Prof. Peter Henson National Jewish Medical Research Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA

Peter Henson, is an immunopathologist whose main interests have been in the study of inflammation, and more recently, in apoptosis as one of the mechanisms for its resolution. This led to the recognition that apoptotic cells, including inflammatory cells, are deleted from metazoan tissues as a result of being phagocytosed... read moreby both professional and non-professional phagocytes. Dr. Henson received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and he has been at the National Jewish Medical Research Center for the last 30 years.