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Baruj Benacerraf ( / bɪˈnæsərəf /; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self."
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980 was awarded jointly to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
Apr 17, 2024 · Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American pathologist and immunologist who shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune.
Aug 2, 2011 · Baruj Benacerraf. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980. Born: 29 October 1920, Caracas, Venezuela. Died: 2 August 2011, Boston, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Sep 13, 2011 · Baruj Benacerraf, the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus, died Aug. 2, 2011, at his home in Jamaica Plain. He was 90. Benacerraf, was a Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and a brilliant, visionary leader—a former president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who, from 1980 to 1992, guided the Institute through a period of ...
Aug 2, 2011 · Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuelan-born immunologist who received a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in exploring why diseases like multiple sclerosis affect some people but not...
Aug 31, 2011 · Baruj Benacerraf bestrode immunology for five decades. He created the intellectual framework leading to our present understanding of how T lymphocytes recognize antigens, for which he...
