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Born August 7, 1948 (age 76) • Texas
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2018)
Subjects Of Study CTLA-4 • T cell • amino acid • antibody • cancer • immune system • melanoma
Tasuku Honjo
Japanese immunologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese biologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Bruce A. Beutler.
Bruce A. Beutler
American immunologist
E. Donnall Thomas
American physician
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
Niels K. Jerne
Danish immunologist
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
David Baltimore.
David Baltimore
American virologist
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus
American scientist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist

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