Dr. Curiel received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1977 from the University of Georgia. He received his M.D. in 1982 from Duke Medical School and received his M.P.H. in 1983 from Harvard University. He completed an internship in Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1983-1984 and completed his residency in Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1986. He was a Clinical and Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases and in Medicine from 1986-1990 at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Curiel was a Clinical and Research Fellow in Medical Oncology from 1995-1997 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He was an Associate Investigator at the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research from 1997-2001. He joined the Tulane faculty in August 2001. At present he is the Henderson Professor of Medicine, chief of hematology and medical oncology and the director of the general clinical research center.