HUGH McDEVITT

McDEVITT--Hugh O'Neill. August 26, 1930 - April 28, 2022. Hugh was 91 years old and died from pneumonia secondary to Parkinson's disease. Hugh was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, and continued to Harvard Medical School for graduate education. Hugh had early in life been introduced to the wonders of medical science by his father, who was a surgeon. After completing an internship, residency training, and 2 years in Japan with the US Army Medical Corps, he continued as a postdoctoral fellow, first at Harvard Medical School and subsequently at Mill Hill in London. He then returned to Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in Bacteriology and Immunology. In 1966, Hugh McDevitt returned to Stanford University, first as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and later as a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology. He spent the following 50 years at Stanford University, where over the years he held a number of different leadership positions in the School of Medicine. Out in the world, Hugh McDevitt was better known as the scientist who unraveled the relationship between the immune response genes and the transplantation genes in the mouse, and later in humans, where they are called the HLA genes. These findings opened up a new field of scientific thinking that still inspires many of the modern developments in vaccinology, cancer therapy, and treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes. But most of all, Hugh will be remembered by a long line of gifted immunologists from all over the world, as the beloved mentor that they would still drop by to visit when they came back to the Bay Area. Hugh McDevitt is survived by his wife of 38 years, Dr. Grete Sonderstrup McDevitt; his four children, Elizabeth, Katharine, Thomas, and Lina; his children's spouses, Colette, Rochelle, and Brian; his grandchildren, Mila and Kai; and numerous nieces and nephews. https://med.stanford.edu/new s/all-news/2022/05/hugh-mcd evitt-obituary.html