The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
Awarded on: 2011-10-03
"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller University – New York, NY, USA
Ralph M. Steinman
Born: 1943-01-14 in Montreal, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Biography
Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.