ABOVE: © COURTESY OF WENDY HAVRAN
Immunologist Wendy Havran, who had been researching the role of gamma-delta T cells in wound healing at the Scripps Research Institute since 1991, died from complications following a heart attack on January 20, according to a Scripps statement. She was 64.
“The entire Scripps Research community is stunned and saddened by this tragic loss,” Scripps colleague Jamie Williamson says in the statement. “Wendy not only made significant contributions to the field of immunology and wound healing, but she inspired countless Scripps Research graduate students and postdocs through her enthusiastic mentorship spanning nearly three decades.”
Havran was born on September 1, 1955, in Houston, Texas. Her father was an engineer while her mother was an elementary teacher.
She began her undergraduate degree at Duke University in 1973 with the initial desire to practice medicine. She began to stray from that path during her sophomore year ...
