Noel Rose, M.D., Ph.D., former professor and chair of the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Immunology and Microbiology, died July 30 in Brookline, Mass. He was 92.

Dr. Rose served as chair of the WSU Department of Immunology and Microbiology from 1973 to 1982.

In 1982 he was appointed chair of the forerunner of what is now the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Rose served from 1951 to 1973 on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, where his lab demonstrated that the major histocompatibility complex contains the main genes that determine the risk for all autoimmune disease.

In 1993, he directed the Department of Pathology Division of Immunology for five years and served as president of the Bloomberg School Faculty Senate. He founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research in 1999.

Dr. Rose and Virginia T. Ladd founded the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, and he chaired the association’s scientific committee.

He received the Abbot Award, the Professional Recognition Award and the Founder’s Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Microbiology; the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and the Presidential Award from the Clinical Immunology Society.

He is survived by his wife, Deborah Rose; daughters, Alison Rose Weinstock and Bethany Rose Kramer; sons, David Rose of Waterloo and Jonathan Rose of Romeo; and 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.