biography
| name: |
Doherty, Peter (Charles)
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pronunciation:
[dokertee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Immunologist, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. He studied veterinary science at the universities of Queensland and Edinburgh, and with Zinkernagel carried out research into the immune system, using laboratory mice, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, in the 1970s. In 1988 he moved to the St Jude Children's Research Hospital at the University of Tennessee. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his contribution to the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells - research which was first reported in 1974. He also shared the Paul Erlich Prize (1983) and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1995) for this research. |
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