Abner Louis Notkins

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Abner Louis Notkins (born May 8, 1932 in New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American immunologist and virologist.

Notkins graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and received his MD in medicine from New York University in 1958 . He completed his specialist training (internship, residency) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and conducted research at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1960/61 . He then did research in the Microbiology Laboratory of the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) at the NIH. From 1967 to 1973 he was head of virology and from 1973 to 1997 the Laboratory of Oral Medicine. From 1997 he headed the Experimental Medicine Department at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the NIH.

He dealt with autoimmune diseases, especially type 1 diabetes mellitus and the auto-antigens involved (such as IA-2). He researched ways of using specific antibodies to detect autoimmune diseases in the blood before the disease actually breaks out.

In 1986 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize . He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

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  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Notkins New predictors for disease , Scientific American, Vol. 296, 2007, 72-9
personal data
SURNAME Notkins, Abner Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut