Peter Doherty (immunologist)

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Peter Doherty

Peter Charles Doherty AC (born October 15, 1940 near Brisbane , Australia ) is an Australian veterinarian and immunologist.

Life

Doherty earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a master's degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Queensland . He received his PhD from Edinburgh University in Scotland in 1970 . In the following years he held various research positions in microbiology , immunology and experimental pathology . He currently serves as a director of the immunology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis , Tennessee , serving three months of the year in Memphis and the other nine months of the year at the University of Melbourne.

Together with the Swiss Rolf Zinkernagel , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1996 for discovering how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells. Virus-infected cells are recognized and destroyed by the immune system using killer T cells . When mice infected with meningitis viruses were examined by Doherty, Doherty found that these killer T cells not only need a virus antigen to recognize virus-infected cells , but also the MHC complexes, which were previously known to have a virus antigen in the event of tissue rejection during transplants Role-play. Their role in the immune defense against viruses came as a surprise.

He had already been awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1983, a Gairdner Foundation International Award in 1986 , and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995 . In Australia he received the title Australian of the Year 1997. In 1999 he received the Leeuwenhoek Medal of the Royal Society . In 1998 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2001 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2006 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Peter Doherty. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 28, 2015 (in Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Doherty, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doherty, Peter Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH near Brisbane , Australia