Hugh Auchincloss Jr.

Hugh Auchincloss, Jr., (pronounced: aa-kuhn-klaas; born March 15, 1949) is an American immunologist and physician serving as the acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 2023. He previously served as the principal deputy director between 2006 and 2022. He was previously a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, and researched at Massachusetts General Hospital for 17 years. Early life and education Hugh Auchincloss, Jr., was born in New York City on March 15, 1949 to Hugh Auchincloss, Sr. (1915−1998), and Katharine Lawrence Bundy. His mother was the daughter of lawyer Harvey Hollister Bundy, and the granddaughter of banker William Lowell Putnam. Auchincloss, Sr., was a long-time surgeon at Columbia University and The Valley Hospital. His father is the first cousin once-removed of stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss. Auchincloss, Jr., graduated from Groton School. At Yale University, he completed an A.B. magna cum laude in political science and economics in 1972, and a master's degree in economics. Auchincloss graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He completed his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1976. Career Auchincloss was a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. For more than 17 years he operated a laboratory in transplantation immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1998, he founded the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Islet Transplantation and served as its director until 2003. He subsequently served as chief operating officer of the NIAID Immune Tolerance Network.