David H. Raulet
David H. Raulet is an immunologist who specializes in studying the role of natural killer cells. He is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley where he also holds the Esther and Wendy Schekman Chair in cancer biology.[1] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.[2] Raulet is also the co-founder of Dragonfly Therapeutics,[3] a company that seeks to use natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy.
Early life and education
Raulet was born in Buffalo, New York.[2] He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in microbiology.[4] He then received his Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] Raulet went on to conduct postdoctoral research in the Department of Pathology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[2]
Independent career
Raulet joined the faculty at MIT in 1983, and moved to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991.[2]
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