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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.
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 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...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
