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Tom Chiles, PhD
Professor and Deluca Chair of Biology at Boston College
Thomas Chiles’s laboratory interrogates cellular physiology and function in B lymphocytes, specifically the function and regulation of glucose and glutamine metabolism in B lymphocyte growth and survival. His research group is also developing nanoscale and material diagnostic devices for application in biomedical research and clinical settings, such as infectious disease detection in low-resource countries around the world.
He received his BS in microbiology and cell science in 1983 from the University of Florida and his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1988 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University School of Medicine in the immunology/oncology training program, as a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA fellow. He joined the faculty at Boston College in 1992 as an assistant professor and served as chair of the biology department from 2006 to 2015.
He has served on several National Institutes of Health study sections, including hypersensitivity, autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases (2004 to 2008), and currently serves on the Cancer Biology I special emphasis panel at the National Cancer Institute. He now serves on the editorial board of Annals of Public Health and Current Immunology Reviews and on the Commission on Pollution, Health, and Development in partnership with The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.