Jack L. Strominger

Jack Leonard Strominger (born August 7, 1925 in New York City ) is an American immunologist and professor at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts .

Strominger did fundamental work in the field of molecular immunology to understand the human immune response . His main research area was the structure and function of the proteins of the major histocompatibility complex .

Life

Strominger earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948 and an MD from Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut in 1948

A first junior professorship ( Assistant Professor 1955, Associate Professor 1958), Strominger received a full professorship at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis , Missouri , in 1960. In 1964 he received a call to the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison , Wisconsin , and in 1968 he moved to Harvard University as a professor of biochemistry . Since 1983 he has been researching at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute . Strominger is still leading a research group (as of 2011) at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.

Jack Strominger's son Andrew is a theoretical physicist and string theorist at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts .

Awards (selection)

• 1960 John J. Abel Award
• 1962 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
• 1967 membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1968 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences
• 1970 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• 1993 Passano Award
• 1993 William B. Coley Award
• 1994 membership in the American Philosophical Society
• 1995 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• 1996 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
• 1999 Japan Prize

literature

• Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, 2012, Volume 2: M – Z. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7032-5 (Volume 2), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN  0083-9396 , p. 4333

Web links

• Jack L. Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at harvard.edu; Retrieved January 14, 2011
• Dr. Jack L. Strominger Profile at japanprize.jp; Retrieved January 14, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 11, 2016
2. ↑ Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology at nasonline.org; accessed on January 14, 2016
3. ^ The Passano Awards 1945–2009 at passanofoundation.org; Retrieved January 14, 2011
4. ^ William B. Coley Award. In: cancerresearch.org. Retrieved January 24, 2016 . 
5. ^ Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 1995 Winners at laskerfoundation.org; Retrieved January 14, 2011
6. ^ Goethe University - laureate since 1952. In: uni-frankfurt.de. March 14, 2016, accessed January 23, 2016 . 
7. ↑ 1999 Japan Prize Laureates at japanprize.jp; Retrieved January 14, 2011