Richard Anthony Flavell (born 23 August 1945 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English molecular biologist, and Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, at Yale School of Medicine where he uses transgenic and gene-targeted mice to study Innate and Adaptive immunity, T cell tolerance and activation in immunity and autoimmunity, apoptosis, and regulation of T cell differentiation.
[2] In 2013, Flavell received the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
[3] In July 2016, Flavell received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Hull.
[4] He is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.
He taught at University of Amsterdam from 1974 to 1979, then headed the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London from 1979 to 1982.