Leslie Brent
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Leslie Baruch Brent (born 5 July 1925), born Lothar Baruch, in Köslin, Germany (now Koszalin, Poland), to German-Jewish parents,[1] is an immunologist.
He has been Professor Emeritus, University of London, since 1990. An immunologist, he is the co-discoverer with Peter Medawar and Rupert Billingham of acquired immunological tolerance. They injected cells from donor mice into fetal mice, and later neonatal mice, which would as adults receive donor skin grafts without rejection.
In 1938, at age 13, to escape the rising anti-Semitism of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) and teachers, Brent was sent to England as the first of the Kindertransports. Because his status as a German national would have made him liable to execution in the event of capture, he was advised to change his name. After the war, he found out that his parents were sent to Rigia, Latvia and executed. After the war, he became a British citizen and enrolled at University of Birmingham.
As a secular Jew who escaped the Holocaust, Brent opposes the use of excessive force in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Education: Bunce Court School, Kent; Birmingham Central Technical College; University of Birmingham (President, Guild of Undergraduates, 1950-51); University College London (PhD).
[edit] Career
- Laboratory technician, 1941-43
- Army service, 1943-47, Captain
- Lecturer, Department of Zoology, UCL, 1954-62
- Rockefeller Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1956-57
- Research scientist, National Institute for Medical Research, 1962-65
- Professor of Zoology, University of Southampton, 1965-69
- Professor of Immunology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, 1969-90
[edit] Other positions
- European Editor, Transplantation, 1963-68
- General Secretary, British Transplantation Society, 1971-75
- President, The Transplantation Society, 1976-78
- Chairman: Wessex Branch, Institute of Biology, 1966-68
[edit] References
- ^ Sunday's child? A Memoir, by Leslie Baruch Brent, Bank House Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-90440-844-4
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