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Ralph M. Steinman 1943–2011
Ralph M. Steinman, professor of immunology at The Rockefeller University in New York and one of the great immunologists of our time, died on September 30 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer, just three days before the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell. Steinman is universally recognized for having given ...
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Ralph Marvin Steinman, the pioneering immunologist and discoverer of dendritic cells — pivotal cells that initiate and regulate the body’s immune response — passed away on September 30, 2011, just three days before it was announced that he was to be awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Figure 1). Ralph was born on January 14, 1943, in Montreal, the second of four siblings. Af...
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The Rockefeller University Press J. Exp. Med. Vol. 208 No. 12 2343-2347 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20112295 As detailed in the Appreciation piece written by Carol Moberg, Ralph’s discovery and investigation of DCs constituted an enormous contribution to immunology. However, Ralph’s influence extended far beyond the strictly scientific. Below, some of Ralph’s closest colleagues and friends ...
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On October 3rd of this year, we were excited to hear the news that Ralph M. Steinman had received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of dendritic cells and their role in adaptive immunity. However, we were immediately in profound shock and grief by the news that he had passed away three days earlier from pancreatic cancer, which had troubled him for 4 years. The committee decided not...
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Ralph Steinman is perhaps best known as a codiscoverer of dendritic cells (DCs) and as a founding father of the research area that these cells have spawned. For his discovery, Steinman was recently awarded the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Yet the man behind the research holds his praise for the many other scientists-in the U.S. and abroad-who have further advanced the th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Immunity
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1074-7613
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.11.003