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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University.
Steinman received numerous honors, including the Freidrich-Sasse (1996), Emil von Behring (1996), and Robert Koch (1999) Prizes, the Rudolf Virchow (1997) and Coley (1998) Medals. In 2004, he received the New York City Mayor’s Award for Science and Technology.
May 14, 2024 · Ralph M. Steinman was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with American immunologist Bruce A. Beutler and French immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann) for his codiscovery with American cell biologist Zanvil A. Cohn of the dendritic cell.
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Ralph M. Steinman. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011. Born: 14 January 1943, Montreal, Canada. Died: 30 September 2011, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity” Prize share: 1/2. Life.
Ralph Steinman, an immunologist who spent his entire career at Rockefeller and died just days before the Nobel Prize committee announced his name, passed away on September 30 after a four-and-a-half year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jan 1, 2012 · When Ralph M. Steinman developed pancreatic cancer, he put his own theories about cancer and the immune system to the test. They kept him alive longer than expected—but three days short of...
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Oct 26, 2011 · Immunologist and cheerleader for dendritic-cell biology. Ralph Steinman changed the world of immunology when he discovered dendritic cells, but it took the field a long time to...
