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John Michael Croft, OBE (8 March 1922 – 15 November 1986) was an English actor, schoolteacher, and writer. Based upon his own experience of supply teaching in tough secondary schools, he wrote the controversial 1954 anti- corporal punishment novel Spare the Rod, which was later released as a film .
Sep 4, 2020 · Michael Croft, Ph.D. Dr. Croft is a Professor at LJI and currently serves as Director of Academic Affairs. Dr. Croft’s research focus is on the cellular regulation of immunity and tolerance, and how membrane bound and soluble stimulatory molecules control function of T cells and cells such as epithelial cells and fibroblasts that contribute ...
Michael Croft, Ph.D., is a professor and director at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) who studies the roles of TNF and TNFR proteins in immunity and disease. His lab investigates how these molecules regulate T cells, epithelial cells, and fibroblasts in asthma, atopic dermatitis, scleroderma, and vaccination.
Apr 7, 2016 · As a high school student, Michael Croft, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Division of Immune Regulation, was interested in biology and not much else—with one exception: “Pretty much all I did was play soccer,” remembers Dr. Croft, who grew up in a small village in the Midlands of England.
Here, Michael Croft describes the biology of four such TNF–TNFR pairs and discusses the implications of targeting them during conditions of inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer.
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Michael Croft is a professor and head of the Division of Immune Regulation at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. He studies how T cell immunity is regulated and how it can be exploited in the treatment of diseases such as asthma, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and diabetes.
Michael Croft, OBE (8 March 1922 - 15 November 1986) was an English actor, schoolteacher and writer, and the founder and director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He is also the author of the novel Spare the Rod, based on his own experiences of supply teaching in tough secondary schools, later filmed in 1961 with Max Bygraves.
