David W. Talmage is an American

United States

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 immunologist

Immunology

Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

. He made significant contributions to the clonal selection

Clonal selection

The clonal selection hypothesis has become a widely accepted model for how the immune system responds to infection and how certain types of B and T lymphocytes are selected for destruction of specific antigens invading the body....

 theory.

Career

Talmage received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1944. From 1959 he was Professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, Professor of microbiology from 1960 to 1986, and distinguished professor starting in 1986. Between 1973 and 1983 he served as director of Webb-Waring Lung Institute and as Associate Dean of Research from 1983 to 1986.

Talmage's protege Andor Szentivanyi discovered The Beta Adrenergic Theory of Asthma.