David B. Stevens
     Graduate Student
     Advisor: Robert H. Swanborg
     Degree: Ph.D., 1993
     Title of thesis: Mechanisms of immunological suppression in
          experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Contact information (as of 4/15/04):
     Senior Research Scientist
     Department of Immunology and Microbiology
     Wayne State University School of Medicine
     540 East Canfield Ave.
     Detroit, MI 48201
     Ph: (313) 577-3252
     Fax: (313) 577-1155
     Work email: at1304@wayne.edu
                                                                         Home email (preferred): davidstevens@sbcglobal.net

Current activity: I'm back at Wayne State where I'm still trying to find the cure for EAE! I tried getting involved in fundamentalist immunology as a post-doc, but always came back to my favorite system of systems. Along the way, I even developed a few EAE subsystems of my very own to exploit scientifically.
After earning my Ph.D. in the Lewis rat system in Dr. Swanborg's lab in 1993, I took a working tour of the West Coast at:
(1) UCLA - An urban jungle in the sun. Brazilianized economy. You're either rich or poor. There's no middle ground. I'm a survivor of the 1994 Los Angeles Northridge earthquake, the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history! Quite some jolts!
(2) La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology - An institute established with the largesse of Kirin Breweries, a Japanese beer company. I lived a mere half a block from a beach lined by 40 ft sheer cliffs. Only the locals know the secret passageways down, making it one of the best "private" ocean beaches in California. Nice!
(3) Oregon Health & Science University in Portland - Upscale backwoods living of sorts. At home, a family of deer grazed just outside of my windows. When in season, you can pick wild berries until you drop. The Pacific Northwest is becoming something of an intellectual Mecca. The Writer's Guild likes it. Bring your own money however. Oregon doesn't have much of an economy of its own.
Right now, I'm in a space carved out for me in The Good Dr. Tse's mouse EAE lab. The tour of the West Coast was nice, but maybe I should have returned home a little sooner.

Personal: Still a confirmed bachelor. My brother and his wife have provided me with two nieces.