John Imboden , M.D.

-Professor of Medicine
-Chief, Division of Rheumatology, SFGH

p: 415-206-6640
f: 415-648-8425
e: imboden@itsa.ucsf.edu

University of California, San Francisco
1001 Potrero Ave., SFGH 30-3300
Box 0868

San Francisco, CA 94143-0868

Dr. Imboden received his MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, where he also completed his Internship and Residency (1977-80). He completed his Rheumatology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (1981-84).


Other Experience and Professional Memberships

1980: American Board of Internal Medicine
1985: American Board of Rheumatology
1987 - 91: Associate Editor, Journal of Immunology
1991 - 93: Member, Basic Immunology Study Section, Arthritis Foundation
1992 - 95: Member, Immunology Study Section, VA Merit Review Board
1993: American Society for Clinical Investigation
1994: Chairman, Molecular Immunology Study Section, Arthritis Foundation
1993- 98: Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry
1994 - 97: Section Editor, Journal of Immunology
1997 - 2002: Member, Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research Committee, NIAID
1998 - 2004 Associate Editor, American Journal of Medicine
2001 Editor (with D. Stites. A. Terr, T. Parslow) Medical Immunology, 10th Ed. McGraw Hill
2001: Association of American Physicians
2004 Editor (with J. Stone, D. Hellmann) Current Rheumatology Diagnosis & Treatment, 1st Ed. McGraw Hill, 2004

 

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Imboden JB: Innate immunity: turning off natural killing. Current Biology, 6:1070-1072, 1996.

2. Shi J, Cinek T, Truitt KE, and Imboden JB: Wortmannin, an inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, blocks antigen-mediated, but not CD3 monoclonal antibody-mediated activation of murine CD4+ T cells. J. Immunol., 158:4688-4695, 1997.

3. Daikh D, Wofsy D, and Imboden JB, The CD28-B7 co-stimulatory pathway and its role in autoimmune disease. J. Leuk. Biol. 62: 156-162, 1997.

4. Weber JR, Ostravik S, Torgersen KM, Danbolt NC, Berg SF, Ryan JC, Tasken K, Imboden JB and Vaage JT, Molecular cloning of the cDNA encoding pp36, a tyrosine-phosphorylated adaptor protein selectively expressed by T cells and natural killer cells. J. Exp. Med. 187: 1157-1161, 1998.

5. Barz C, Nagel T, Truitt K, and Imboden JB, Mutational analysis of CD28-mediated co-stimulation of Jun N-terminal kinase and interleukin-2 production. J. Immunol., 161: 5366-5372, 1998.

6. Sadra A, Cinek T, Arellano JL, Truitt KE, and Imboden JB, Identification of tyrosine phosphorylation sites in the CD28 cytoplasmic domain and their role in the co-stimulation of Jurkat T-cells. J. Immunol. 162: 1966-1973, 1999.

7. Cinek, T, Sadra A, and Imboden JB, Tyrosine-independent transmission of inhibitory signals by CTLA-4. J. Immunol., 164: 5-8, 2000.

8. Chikuma S, Cinek T, Imboden JB, and Bluestone JA, Negative Regulation of T Cell Receptor-Lipid Raft interaction by Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Associated Antigen-4. J. Exp. Med. 197:129-135, 2003.

9. Andres PG, Howland KC, Kane LP, Barron L, Sadra A, Imboden JB, Weiss A, and Abbas AK, The mechanism of CD28-mediated T cell co-stimulation. Nature Immunol. 5:435-442, 2004.

10. Sadra A, Cinek T, and Imboden JB, Translocation of CD28 to lipid rafts and co-stimulation of interleukin-2 Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 101:11422-11427, 2004.

   

Home | News & Events | Donate | Links | Contact | Webmaster
Copyright © 2003, The Regents of University of California. All rights reserved.