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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) 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.
Biographical. Ralph M. Steinman was born in Montreal, Canada, on 14 January 1943, the second of four children. His father Irving, a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, and his mother Nettie owned a department store in Sherbrooke near Montreal.
Ralph M. Steinman was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with American immunologist Bruce A. Beutler and French immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann) for his codiscovery with American cell biologist Zanvil A. Cohn of the dendritic cell.
Oct 26, 2011 · Immunologist and cheerleader for dendritic-cell biology. Ralph Steinman changed the world of immunology when he discovered dendritic cells, but it took the field a long time to...
Sep 30, 2011 · Ralph M. Steinman. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011. Born: 14 January 1943, Montreal, Canada. Died: 30 September 2011, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity” Prize share: 1/2. Life.
Oct 4, 2011 · Dr. Ralph M. Steinman, a cell biologist who was named one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for his work on the human immune response, died Friday in Manhattan, a fact ...
Nobel Lecture. Ralph Steinman and the Discovery of Dendritic Cells. Michel C. Nussenzweig delivered a Nobel Lecture on behalf of the late Ralph M. Steinman on 7 December 2011 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Lars Klareskog, Chairman of the Nobel Assembly. Presentation.
Dec 9, 2011 · Ralph M. Steinman, professor of immunology at The Rockefeller University in New York and one of the great immunologists of our time, died on September 30 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer, just three days before the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell.
Dec 8, 2011 · Ralph’s work revolutionized how we think the immune system works and how it can be modulated, created new fields of scientific endeavor, and is already leading to new therapies for human disease, with a deep pipeline to follow.
Ralph M. Steinman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
