The Noel R. Rose Pathobiology Graduate Program Fund
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The Noel R. Rose Pathobiology Graduate Program Fund is an endowed fund honoring Noel R. Rose, M.D., Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Division of Immunology and the Johns Hopkins Pathobiology Graduate Program, and founder of the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center. Dr. Rose passed away on July 30, 2020. The income from the fund is used to support the educational and research mission of the Johns Hopkins Pathobiology Graduate Program.
After completing his bachelor’s degree in Zoology at Yale University in 1948 and his doctoral degree from Penn State University in 1951, Dr. Rose took a position as an assistant instructor in the School of Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, ultimately receiving his medical degree in 1964. He then became a Professor of Microbiology at SUNY Buffalo, serving as Director of Immunology until 1973 when he accepted a position at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, as Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology. In 1982, Dr. Rose joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as a Professor holding appointments in both the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he served as Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. In 1994, he was appointed Director of the Division of Immunology in the Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology. In 1999, Dr. Rose founded the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center, a collaborative research effort with the school of public health, serving as its inaugural director until his retirement. From 2005 to 2015, he also served as Director of the Pathobiology Graduate Student Program, helping to shape the program into the unique, world class program it is today. He retired from Johns Hopkins in 2015, relocating to Boston where he continued to teach and mentor students as a member of the pathology faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
For more than 65 years, Dr. Rose made enormous contributions to the academic community at Johns Hopkins and beyond. His long and distinguished research career was launched in 1950 with the pioneering studies on autoimmunity thyroiditis in which he developed the first model of autoimmune disease that helped to initiate the modern era of autoimmune research. This was just the beginning of his remarkable career which included not only his landmark contributions in autoimmunity but also his extraordinary dedication to teaching which served to inspire and motivate countless students.
In 2012, the Noel R. Rose Pathobiology Graduate Student Fund was established by the Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology to honor Dr. Rose’s long career as an outstanding physician-scientist and medical educator by supporting talented young scientists as they take the next steps in their academic careers.
If you would like to support our Pathobiology students and honor Dr. Noel Rose’s legacy, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution in his honor to the Noel R. Rose Pathobiology Graduate Program Fund through the Department of Pathology’s secure online giving form by clicking the button below.
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