Stuart F. Schlossman
Stuart Franklin Schlossman (born April 18, 1935 in New York City ) is an American immunologist .
Life
Schlossman studied at New York University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1955 and his MD in medicine in 1958. Among other things, he was in the laboratory of Al Stetson and Baruj Benacerraf at the time . The course was followed by specialist training (internship, residency) at Bellevue Hospital and advanced training (fellow) in immunology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and in hematology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He then did research in the Biochemistry Department at the National Cancer Institute from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 he was an instructor at Harvard Medical School and at Beth Israel Hospital, where he was at the blood bank. From 1973 he was at the Dana Farber Cancer Center at Harvard Medical School, where he headed the tumor immunology department and was given a full professorship in 1977. In 2010 he retired as Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Medicine.
Schlossman and his colleagues characterized T cells according to their CD 4 and CD 8 surface molecules, the CD3 receptor (around 1979) and the T cell receptor complex (1983).
In 1971 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1984 he received the Robert Koch Prize and in 1997 the William B. Coley Award and also the Ciba-Geigy Award. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992 .
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| SURNAME | Schlossman, Stuart F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlossman, Stuart Franklin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |