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Jules Alphonse Nicolas Hoffmann (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ɔfman]; born 2 August 1941) is a French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann.
May 6, 2024 · Jules Hoffmann (born August 2, 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg) is a French immunologist and corecipient, with American immunologist Bruce A. Beutler and Canadian immunologist and cell biologist Ralph M. Steinman, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to the activation of innate immunity (the first line of ...
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
This direction was boosted by the discovery of the antimicrobial peptide cecropin in infected pupae of the moth Hyalophora cecropia, by Pr Hans Boman in Stockholm where my co-worker (and wife) Danièle Hoffmann spent a postdoctoral period in 1979. By 1990, the laboratory had considerably grown.
Oct 25, 2011 · This year's Nobel Prize to Ralph Steinman, Jules Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler marked the significance of the advances made over the past 4 decades in the field of innate immunology. Nature...
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Jules A. Hoffmann, PhD. University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. Strasbourg, France. Class of 2019. For his seminal, Nobel Prize winning discovery of the receptors of innate immunity and their roles in detecting microorganisms and subsequently activating signaling pathways that control innate immune responses.
Name: Jules A. Hoffmann Date of birth: 2 August 1941. Research Priorities: Immune system, innate immunity, receptor proteins, Toll‐gene, Toll‐like receptors, TLR. Jules Hoffmann is a French biologist. In 2011, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Bruce Beutler and Ralph M. Steinmann.
