People: Dynavax Technologies Corp (DVAX.PH)

Dr. Robert L. Coffman, Ph.D., serves as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Dynavax Technologies Corporation since December 2000. Dr. Coffman has been Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer since December 2000. Dr. Coffman joined Dynavax from the DNAX Research Institute where he had been since 1981, most recently as Distinguished Research Fellow. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University Medical School. Dr. Coffman has made fundamental discoveries about the regulation of immune responses in allergic and infectious diseases. He shared the William S. Coley Award for Research in Immunology for discovery of the Th1 and Th2 subsets of T lymphocytes, the two types of T cells that control most immune responses. Dr. Coffman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and his A.B. from Indiana University. In 2006, Dr. Coffman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Since May 2011, Dr. Coffman has provided advisory services to the Baylor Research Institute.