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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) [2] 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.
Sep 26, 2024 · 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.
Sep 30, 2011 · 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 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...
Ralph Steinman discovered dendritic cells (DCs) in 1973 with Zanvil Cohn. He went on to convince the world by his work that DCs are unique cell types of the immune system fundamental in initiating and regulating immune responses at large. Ralph Steinman had no competitors in science, only collaborators—to his way of thinking, the problem was ...
In 1973, Rockefeller University scientist Ralph M. Steinman identified the cell type that is almost singularly responsible for commanding the efforts of all other immune cells: the dendritic cell. For this discovery, Dr. Steinman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
On 30 September 2011, just days short of the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of dendritic cells, Ralph Steinman lost his nearly 5-year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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.
Watch a video clip of Mrs Claudia Steinman receiving the Nobel Medal and Diploma on behalf of the late Professor Ralph M. Steinman during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2011.
