Alfred Imre Tauber trained as a hematologist and biochemist, whose laboratory interests focused on inflammation induced by free radicals and the cell biology of phagocytes. After completing clinical and research fellowships at Tufts-New England Medical Center, MIT, and Harvard Medical School, he joined the faculty of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1978. In 1982, he was recruited to the faculty of Boston University’s School of Medicine as Chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at the Boston City Hospital. In 1993, following his historical and philosophical studies of his basic science research field, Dr. Tauber was appointed to the Department of Philosophy, where he served as Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science until 2010. He retired from Boston University in 2011, but continued to teach at Tel Aviv University until 2015. From 2003 to 2013, he served as a Trustee of Tufts University and from 2013 to 2019, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the University of Haifa. Dr. Tauber publishes widely on scientific epistemology, medical ethics, and psychoanalysis. In 2008, he was awarded the Science Medal from the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna for his critical studies of immunology and Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from the University of Haifa in 2011.
