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Kedar Narayan, Immunologist, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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"My lab at the NIH is very interesting because my colleagues and I come from diverse educational backgrounds. We have mathematicians, programmers, engineers and microscopists. My lab is developing new and sophisticated imaging technologies to study HIV. "

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According to the American Medical Association, Careers in Medicine, an Immunologist is a physician who is trained in the evaluation, physical and laboratory diagnosis and management of disorders involving the immune system. Selected examples of such conditions include: asthma, anaphylaxis, rhinitis, eczema and adverse reactions to drugs, foods and insect stings as well as immune deficiency diseases (both acquired and congenital), defects in host defense and problems related to autoimmune disease, organ transplantation or malignancies of the immune system.

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M.D.

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