1931
Dr. Alper is born in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob Julian and Emma Ruth Alper.
1952
Dr. Alper graduates summa cum laude from the Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. He also receives the Detur Prize from Harvard University.
1956
Dr. Alper graduates cum laude from Harvard University, receiving a Doctor of Medicine and begins a medical internship at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center).
1957
Dr. Alper serves in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
1959
Dr. Alper becomes an assistant resident at Boston City Hospital.
1960
Dr. Alper studies in Sweden as a postdoctoral research fellow.
1961
Dr. Alper marries Natalie Carole Katz.
1962
Dr. Alper becomes a research fellow at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Woman’s Hospital) in Boston.
1964
Dr. Alper is certified as a diplomate by the American Board of Internal Medicine, becoming a research associate in medicine at Harvard Medical School and at the Boston Children’s Hospital.
1969
Dr. Alper becomes an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
1971
Dr. Alper becomes the science director of the Blood Grouping Laboratory and the Blood Research Institute.
1972
Dr. Alper becomes the science director of the Center for Blood Research at the Immune Disease Institute, Inc.
1975
Dr. Alper is promoted to full professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
1989
Dr. Alper becomes a member of the adjunct faculty at The Rockefeller University in New York, New York.
1990
Dr. Alper receives the Merit Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
1993
Dr. Alper is appointed vice president of the Immune Disease Institute, Inc.
2017
Dr. Alper is honored with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and is named a Distinguished Humanitarian by Marquis Who’s Who.