Baruj Benacerraf
Immunologist
1920-10-29 – 2011-08-02
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is known for work on the genetic control of immune responses and major histocompatibility complex-related research.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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