Richard A.Goldsby is a member of the Department of Biology at Amherst College.His research interests include the somatic mutation of antibody course director in the National Science Foundation-Chatauqua Short Course Program for the education of college teachers,where every year presents a course on current advances in immunology.

Thomas J.Kindt,National Institutes of Health,is the Director,Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,which places him in daily contact with the cutting edge of experimental and clinical immunology.As head of the Immunogenetics Research Section,Tom's research interests include the study of retroviral infections in animal models.

Barbara A.Osborne,University of Massachusetts at Amherst,is a recognized contributor to the fast-moving area of apoptosis,or programmed cell death.A highly active researcher,Barbara also teaches immunology to undergraduate and graduate students.

Janis Kuby,who died in 1997,taught at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley.Professor Kuby was the originator of this textbook and author of the first three editions.Her expert teaching and writing skills made Immunology the best-selling text for the course,and hervision for the text as a way to combine cutting-edge content in an accessible,pedagogically rich format lives on in the new edition.