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...Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology at the Medical School, said yesterday he declined the offer because his commitments to research projects in pathology would not allow him to leave Harvard at the present time...
Tell that to Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, and he will shrug expansively. Benacerraf had been studying immunology, he says, "years before cancer became fashionable," and when the two fields overlapped, he had investigated the connection. Benacerraf's experiments with transplanting mouse tumors had indicated that tumor cells prompt immune defenses by the mouse. He says that some evidence suggests that the tumor might confuse the immune system's sense of what is self; that immune mechanisms begin to treat the malignant cells as "self" and then actually encourage growth of the tumor...
...elected the following new members yesterday: Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology; Don W. Fawcett '38, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy; Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics emeritus; George Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Reed C. Rollins, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany; Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine; and Maxwell Finland '22, Minot Professor of Medicine emeritus...