Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to three Humboldtians
10/6/11
Source: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is pleased to learn that Bruce Beutler from the United States, Jules Hoffman from Luxembourg and Canadian Ralph Steinman have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2011. It is with great sadness that the Foundation has received news of the death of Ralph Steinman, who passed away on 30 September 2011 in New York.
In all, 47 researchers from the global Humboldt Network have now received a Nobel Prize. The three scientists were honoured for their research on the immune system. Beutler and Hoffman will receive one half of the prize for their discovery of innate immunity; Steinman will be honoured with the second half for his discovery of dendritic cells, which play an important role in adaptive immunity.
Bruce Beutler received the Humboldt Research Award in 1993 and conducted research as a Foundation award winner at the University of Regensburg in 1994; he was also host to a German Feodor Lynen fellow of the Foundation. Jules Hoffman won the Humboldt Research Award in 1983 and conducted research at the University of Marburg in 1984. Ralph Steinman received the Max Planck Research Award, the joint international research award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society, in 1999.The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend time researching in Germany. The Foundation maintains a network of well over 25,000 Humboldtians from all disciplines in more than 130 countries worldwide - including 47 Nobel Prize winners.
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Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend time researching in Germany. The Foundation maintains a network of well over 25,000 Humboldtians from all disciplines in more than 130 countries worldwide – including 47 Nobel Prize winners.
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