David McKean, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. During his thirty years as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded investigator on the research faculty of Mayo Clinic he published 134 peer-reviewed research publications and was actively involved in PhD and MD-PhD education programs both as a student mentor and administrator. His academic administrative responsibilities included Dean of Mayo Graduate School, Chair of the Mayo Immunology Department, and Admissions Committee member of both the Mayo Graduate School PhD program and Mayo MD-PhD program. He also participated as a reviewer of graduate and postgraduate fellowship applications and faculty research grants sponsored by the Howard Hughes Foundation, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, and National Institutes of Health.
