The Nobel Assembly has announced to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler at the Scripps Research Institute in California and Jules A. Hoffmann at the French National Center for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman at the Rockefeller University in New York City for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity on October 3, 2011 at Karolinska Institute.
Source URL: https://iviansarcos.blogspot.com/2011/10/nobel-prize-winner-in-physiology-or.htmlThe Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology or Medicine 2011
Bruce A. Beutler
| NAME | Bruce Alan Beutler |
| BORN | December 29, 1957 (Chicago, IL, USA) |
| AGE | 53 years |
| NATIONALITY | American |
| PARENTS | Emest Beutler (geneticist) and Brondelle May Fleisher (journalist) |
| BETTER HALF | Barbara Beutler (divorced) |
| CHILDREN | Daniel, Eliot and Jonathan |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1976 |
| M.D., Medicine, the University of Chicago, 1981 | |
| EXPERTISE | Immunology |
| IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS | the isolation of mouse tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and discovery of its inflammatory properties. |
| the invention of recombinant inhibitors for TNF, now widely used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. | |
| the discovery of the receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which revealed how mammals sense infection and how certain inflammatory diseases begin. | |
| AWARDS & HONORS | (1994) Outstanding Investigator Award (American Federation for Clinical Research,USA) |
| (2004) Robert Koch Prize (Robert Koch Stiftung, Germany) | |
| (2006) William B. Coley Award (Cancer Research Institute, USA) | |
| (2006) Gran Prix Charles-Leopold-Mayer (Académie des Sciences, France) | |
| (2007) Balzan Prize (International Balzan Foundation, Italy and Switzerland) | |
| (2007) Doctor of Medicine honoris causa from the Technical University of Munich | |
| (2007) Frederik B. Bang Award (International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society) | |
| (2008) National Academy of Sciences | |
| (2009) Albany Medical Center Prize | |
| (2011) Shaw Prize | |
| the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 | |
| AFFILIATION | the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX, USA | |
| PRIZE MOTIVATION | "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" |
Jules A. Hoffmann
| NAME | Jules A. Hoffmann |
| BORN | August 2, 1941 (Echternach, Luxembourg) |
| AGE | 70 years |
| NATIONALITY | French |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France. |
| Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Strasbourg in 1969 | |
| post-doctoral training at the Institute for Physiologische Chemie at Philipps Universitat in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany in 1973-1974. | |
| EXPERTISE | Biology |
| AWARDS & HONORS | (2003) Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award |
| (2004) Robert Koch Prize | |
| (2007) Balzan Prize together with Bruce A. Beutler for Innate Immunity | |
| (2010) Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award (shared with Ruslan M. Medzhitov) | |
| (2010) Keio Medical Science Prize | |
| (2011) Gairdner Foundation International Award (shared with Shizuo Akira | |
| (2011) Shaw Prize (shared with Bruce A. Beutler and Ruslan M. Medzhitov | |
| (2011) CNRS Gold Medal | |
| the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 | |
| AFFILIATION | CNRS |
| PRIZE MOTIVATION | "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" |
Ralph M. Steinman
| NAME | Ralph Marvin Steinman |
| BORN | January 14, 1943 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| DIED | September 30, 2011 |
| AGE | 68 years |
| NATIONALITY | Canadian |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | B.Sc. degree from McGill University in 1963 |
| M.D.(magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School in 1968 | |
| EXPERTISE | Immunology and Cell Biology |
| AWARDS & HONORS | (1998) William B. Coley Award |
| (1999) Robert Koch Prize | |
| (2003) Gairdner Foundation International Award | |
| (2007) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research | |
| (2009) Albany Medical Center Prize (shared with Charles A. Dinarello and Bruce Beutler) | |
| the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 | |
| AFFILIATION | Rockefeller University, New York, USA |
| PRIZE MOTIVATION | "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" |
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