Max Dale Cooper
Max Dale Cooper (born August 21, 1933 in Hazlehurst , Mississippi ) is an American immunologist.
Life
Cooper attended school in Bentonia , Mississippi, where he was the son of a teacher couple. From 1951 he was at Holmes Junior College, studied at the University of Mississippi (Bachelor 1954), where he graduated in medicine in 1955, followed by an MD degree in 1957 at Tulane University Medical School. Since 1967 he was an immunologist at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (Alabama) . Cooper is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He is there at the Emory Vaccine Center and Emory Center for Aids Research.
He was visiting scholar at the University of London, the Hospital for Sick Children in London, the University of Minnesota, Tulane University and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
He and his group studied Fc receptor- like molecules (FcRL, FC receptor like) on B cells , their distribution, genetics and function.
In addition to the usual immune system with B cells, T cells and major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs), which are only found in vertebrates, Cooper and his group also found another system in jawless vertebrates such as lampreys . There are no B-cell receptors, T-cell receptors or MHCs as in other vertebrates, but they have an adaptive immune system based on variable lymphocyte receptors (VLR) with leucine- rich repeats (LRR).
He is married with a daughter and three sons.
Awards
- In 2010 he received the Robert Koch Prize . He has received a Howard Hughes Medical Investigatorship Award, the 3m Life Sciences Award and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and, since 1992, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
- In 2008 Cooper received the Avery Landsteiner Prize .
- In 2016 he was elected to the Académie des Sciences and in 2017 to the Royal Society .
- For 2019, Cooper was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research .
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| SURNAME | Cooper, Max Dale |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hazlehurst , Mississippi , United States |