Hans D. Ochs

Hans Dieter Ochs is a German-born immunologist and pediatrician, born on 29 September 1936 in Spaichingen, who is a professor of pediatrics in the division of immunology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He trained in medicine at the University of Freiburg, held residencies in Honolulu, Tuebingen and Seattle, and later studied biochemistry and clinical immunology. His research concerns the molecular basis of primary immunodeficiency diseases, among them Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, hyper IgM syndrome, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, IPEX syndrome and autosomal dominant hyper IgE syndrome, and he contributed to the identification of several genes involved, including CD40L, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, Bruton's tyrosine kinase and FOXP3. He studied immunoglobulin replacement, stem cell transplantation and gene therapy, and co-edited standard textbooks on immunologic disorders in children and on primary immunodeficiency.