List of immunologists

This is a list of notable immunologists.

Pioneers
  • Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox
  • Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the first vaccine for rabies

Nobel laureates
  • 1901 Emil Adolf von Behring (1854-1917), "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria" (First ever Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
  • 1908 Eli Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), "for study of the immune system"
  • 1919 Jules Bordet (1870-1961), "for discovery of the complement system in the immune system"
  • 1930 Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), "for discovery of human blood types"
  • 1960 Peter B. Medawar (1915-1987) and Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985), "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
  • 1972 Gerald Maurice Edelman (1929-) and Rodney Robert Porter (1917-1985), "for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies"
  • 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011), Jean Dausset (1916-2009) and George Davis Snell (1903-1996), "for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self"
  • 1984 Niels Jerne (1911-1994), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995) and César Milstein (1927-2002) "for work on the immune system and the production of monoclonal antibodies"
  • 1987 Susumu Tonegawa (1939-), "for discovering how the large diversity of antibodies is produced genetically"
  • 1989 J. Michael Bishop (1936-) and Harold E. Varmus (1939-), "for discovering the cellular origins of retroviral oncogenes"
  • 1996 Peter C. Doherty (1940-) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944-) "for describing how MHC molecules are used by white blood cells to detect and kill virus-infected cells."
  • 2011 Bruce Beutler(1957-), Jules A. Hoffmann (1941-) "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943-2011)"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
  • 2018 James P. Allison (1948-) and Tasuku Honjo (1942-) "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." [1]

Notable immunologists
  • Alan Aderem, innate immunity
  • Lorne Babiuk
  • Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction
  • William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy
  • Albert Coons (1912–1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies
  • Deborah Doniach, organ-specific auto-immunity
  • Eva Engvall, one of the scientists who invented ELISA in 1971.
  • Denise Faustman, Type 1 diabetes
  • William Frankland, popularisation of the UK pollen count, and prediction of increased penicillin allergy
  • Ian Frazer, development of a cervical cancer vaccine
  • Samuel O. Freedman, discovered Carcinoembryonic antigen
  • Jules T. Freund (1890-1960)
  • Sankar Ghosh
  • John Grange
  • Waldemar Haffkine (1860-1930), first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.
  • Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991), showed that antibodies are proteins
  • George Heist (1886–1920)
  • Leonard Herzenberg
  • Miroslav Holub (1923-1998)
  • Charles Janeway (1943-2003), wrote the standard textbook Immunobiology
  • Dermot Kelleher
  • Tadamitsu Kishimoto
  • Jan Klein, Mhc
  • Mary Loveless (1899–1991), insect venom allergy
  • Tak Wah Mak, discovery of the T-cell receptor
  • Polly Matzinger, immunological tolerance, Danger Model, Hyppo Model
  • Ira Mellman
  • Jacques Miller
  • Avrion Mitchison
  • Michael Neuberger
  • Alan Munro
  • Gustav Nossal
  • Santa J. Ono
  • Thomas Platts-Mills discovered dust-mite allergen and alpha-gal allergy from tick bites
  • Nicholas P. Restifo
  • Fred Rosen (1930-2005), discovered the cause of X-linked hyper IgM syndrome.
  • Richard R. Rosenthal
  • Louis W. Sauer (1885-1980), perfected pertussis vaccine, developed diphtheria/p daertussis/tetanus vaccine
  • Emil Skamene
  • David Talmage clonal selection theory
  • Reyes Tamez
  • Kevin J. Tracey
  • Jan Vilcek
  • Ellen Vitetta
  • Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976)
  • Don Wiley (1944-2001), crystallography of HLA proteins
  • Ian Wilson (biologist)
  • Ernst Witebsky (1901-1969), isolation and partial characterization of A and B blood antigens
  • Jian Zhou (1957-1999), with co-inventor Ian Frazer has priority for invention of Virus-like particle and HPV vaccine
  • Ivan Roitt
  • James S. Tan (1927-2006)
  • Mike Belosevic
  • Shimon Sakaguchi, discovery of regulatory T cells
  • Alberto Mantovani
  • Dr. Allison Cameron, a character on the television series House M.D.

References
  1. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/summary/
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