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 Don J. Diamond, Ph.D.

  • Director, Translational Vaccine Research
  • Professor, Virology
  • Full Member, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Professional Experience

2008 - present, Director, Division of Translational Vaccine Research, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1999 - present, Professor, Department of Virology, Beckman Research Institute

1999 - 2008, Head, Laboratory of Vaccine Research, Department of Virology, Beckman Research Institute

1994 - 1999, Associate Research Scientist, Hematology Research, City of Hope, Duarte, CA 

1989 - 1994, Assistant Research Scientist and Section Head, Department of Immunology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

1986 - 1989, Research Fellow and Instructor in Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

1985 - 1987, Leukemia Society of America Fellow with E. Reinherz, M.D., DFCI, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

1984 - 1986, Postdoctoral Fellow with S. Tonegawa, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, MA, MIT, Cambridge, MA


Education and Training

1984, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Ph.D., Biological Chemistry

1977, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B., Biology (Magna Cum Laude)


This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 10/08.

Don Diamond, Ph.D.

Honors and Awards

2008, Chair of Therapeutic Intervention Panel, FAMRI Annual Grants Review

2007, Chair of 2007 IPCAVD Grant Review, NIAID

2007, Appointed to 4 year term on CSR/NIH Study Section ‘”Vaccines for Microbial Diseases”

2006, Chair, Partnership for HCV Vaccine Development (RFA NIH-NIAID-DMID-05-030), Washington, DC

2005, International Organizing Committee, 10th CMV Workshop; Invited Plenary Talk, Williamsburg, VA.

2004, Moderator, Simultaneous Session “Infections” Annual Meeting, ASH, San Diego, CA

2004, Chair, HIVRAD/NIAID Review Panel

2004 - 2006, Ad hoc member, CSR/NIH Study Section, “Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy.”

2002 - present, Member, Grants Review Committee for Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute

1999 - present,  Member, External Grants Review Panel, Military Infectious Disease Research Program, “HIV Vaccines”.

1997 - present, Member, Scientific Review Committee, Concern Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 

1985 - 1987, Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America

1977, Summa Cum Laude Thesis in Biology, "Identification of a Precursor for Globin mRNA", Laboratory of P. Doty, Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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