title: Remembrance of immunology past: conversations with Herman Eisen.
abstract: Herman Eisen and Sondra Schlesinger spent several days together in September 2007 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, talking about immunology, focusing on his remembrances of the field over the more than 60 years of his involvement. This article is an abridged version of those discussions (the full version is available on the Annual Reviews website). It is both an oral history and a written memory of some important but selected areas of immunology.
authors.affiliation: Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02129.
authors.forename: Herman N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.forename: Sondra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schlesinger
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System; D013601:T-Lymphocytes
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies
keywords: CD8+ T cells; affinity maturation; antibodies; myeloma proteins