Dr. Auchincloss earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and economics and a master’s degree in economics from Yale University. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1976.

Prior to his 2006 appointment at NIAID, Dr. Auchincloss was a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. For more than 17 years he operated a laboratory in transplantation immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1998, he founded the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Islet Transplantation and served as its director until 2003. He subsequently served as Chief Operating Officer of the NIAID Immune Tolerance Network. Read more.