Robert D. Schreiber

Robert David Schreiber
Robert Schreiber, in 2017.
BornApril 1946
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipU.S.
Alma materState University of New York at Buffalo
Known forResearch in cancer immunology
Scientific career
FieldsScientist; Immunologist; Educator
InstitutionsScripps Research Institute; Washington University in St. Louis

Robert D. Schreiber (born 1946) is an immunologist and currently is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine. Schreiber has led a major revision in our understanding of how the immune system interacts with cancer. His work on the cancer immunoediting[1] hypothesis has helped reveal that the immune system is not only capable of destroying cancers, but can also drive them into a dormant state that, in some cases, results in an improved state of malignancy.

  1. ^ Dunn, GP, Old, LJ and Schreiber, RD. "The three E's of cancer immunoediting", Annu Rev Immunol, 22:329, 2004