Ruslan Medzhitov
Ruslan M. Medzhitov (born March 12, 1966 in Tashkent , Soviet Union , now Uzbekistan ) is an Uzbek immunologist and professor of immunobiology at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut .
Life
Medzhitov graduated from the State University in Tashkent a bachelor and in 1993 at the State University in Moscow a Ph.D. in biochemistry . From 1994 to 1999 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Charles Janeway at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven , Connecticut , where he subsequently became an assistant professor and in 2003 a full professor. Medzhitov is also doing research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .
Act
In 1997, Medzhitov identified a human homologue of the Drosophila toll, the TLR-4 . Medzhitov was subsequently significantly to the elucidation of the innate immunity (innate immunity) and that mechanisms by which this system with the acquired immune system (adaptive immunosystem) cooperates and T- and B-cells , information on specific antigens mediated.
Awards (selection)
- 2003 William B. Coley Award
- 2004 Emil von Behring Prize
- 2008 Howard Taylor Ricketts Award
- 2009 Rosenstiel Award , together with Jules Hoffmann
- 2010 membership in the National Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Shaw Prize
- 2013 Else Kröner Fresenius Award (endowed with a total of 4 million euros and awarded for the first time in 2013)
- 2013 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
- 2019 Dickson Prize in Medicine
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, 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. 2999
Web links
- Ruslan M Medzhitov, PhD, Profile and Bio at Yale University (yale.edu); Retrieved April 27, 2011
- Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., Profile and Research Abstract at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org); Retrieved April 27, 2011
- Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov at the International Exchange Center of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (tmd.ac.jp); Retrieved April 27, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ William B. Coley Award. In: cancerresearch.org. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
- ^ Emil von Behring Prize of the Philipps University of Marburg at uni-marburg.de; Retrieved October 6, 2012
- ^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
- ^ The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2011 at shawprize.org; Retrieved June 8, 2011
- ↑ Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research 2013. In: ekfs.de. June 5, 2013, accessed May 11, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Medzhitov, Ruslan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Medzhitov, Ruslan M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent |