Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011


Bruce A. Beutler
Bruce A. Beutler
Born: 1957, Chicago, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award:University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Field: immunity
Jules A. Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann
Born: 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg
Affiliation at the time of the award:University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Field: immunity
Ralph M. Steinman
Ralph M. Steinman
Born: 1943, Montreal, Canada
Died: 30 September 2011
Affiliation at the time of the award:Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
Field: immunity





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