DELVES, Peter J(ohn) 1951-

PERSONAL: Born March 14, 1951, in Birmingham, England; son of John Alfred (a civil servant) and Miriam Eunice (Tudor) Delves; married Mary Jane Bishop (a homemaker), 1986; children: Joseph Michael, Thomas David, Jessica Lucy. Education: University of London, B.Sc. (with honors), 1973, Ph. D., 1986; Brunel University, M.Sc., 1978. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, music (jazz), good food.

ADDRESSES: Home—Wanstead, East London, England. Offıce—Department of Immunology, Windeyer Institute, University College, University of London, 46 Cleveland St., London W1P 6DB, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, research officer, 1974-79; University of London, University College, London, England, reader in immunology.

MEMBER: British Society for Immunology.

AWARDS, HONORS: Certificate of Educational Merit, British Medical Association, 1996, for Interactive Core Tutorials in Immunology.

WRITINGS:

(Executive editor) Encyclopedia of Immunology, three volumes, Academic Press (San Diego, CA), 1992, editor in chief of 2nd edition, four volumes, Academic Press (San Diego, CA), 1998.

(With Ivan M. Roitt) Slide Atlas of Essential Immunology, Blackwell Scientific (Cambridge, MA), 1992.

(Editor) Cellular Immunology, Blackwell Scientific (Cambridge, MA), 1994.

(With Ivan M. Roitt) Essential Immunology Review, Blackwell Science (Cambridge, MA), 1995.

Antibody Applications: Essential Techniques, John Wiley and Sons (New York, NY), 1995.

Antibody Production: Essential Techniques, John Wiley and Sons (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Ivan M. Roitt) Roitt's Essential Immunology, 10th edition, Blackwell Science (Malden, MA), 2001.

(With Ivan M. Roitt and Arthur Ivan Rabson) Really Essential Medical Immunology, revised edition, Blackwell Publishing (Malden, MA), in press.

Also author of Interactive Core Tutorials in Immunology (CD-ROM), 1996.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Reference Books Annual, 1999, review of Encyclopedia of Immunology, p. 591.

Choice, March, 1999, J. M. Wehmeyer, review of Encyclopedia of Immunology, p. 1240; May, 1999, Daniel Quinn, review of Encyclopedia of Immunology, p. HS-3.

SciTech Book News, December, 1998, review of Encyclopedia of Immunology, p. 54.*