He joined the division in February, 2008. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Immunology and its Autoimmunity Program. Dr. Fife is a faculty member for the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology (MICaB) as a Graduate Student Ph.D. Program adviser and mentor. In December 2001, Dr. Fife graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. It is there that he initiated his research interests in autoimmune mediated diseases. Following graduation, Dr. Fife joined the Diabetes Center in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco for postdoctoral research. The major focus of his research program is the restoration of immunological self tolerance for treatment of autoimmunity.