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Researcher/Immunologist - Dr. Barry Bloom  The following is an
excerpt from an interview with Barry Bloom that took place at
the "Winding Your Way through DNA" symposium at the University
of California San Francisco in 1992. At the time, Dr. Bloom was
an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.
Excerpted from the symposium transcripts with permission of the
University of California, San Francisco.  Interviewer: What is
the goal of your work, what are you trying to do, and how does
it affect society?  Dr. Bloom: Well, in the narrow sense, my
field is immunology and the study of immunity, and what we would
like to do is make vaccines that are cheap and effective that
could save the lives of many, many children and adults in this
world who suffer from infectious diseases. In a broader sense,
in order to do that, we have to understand how the immune system
works, and that is an