American, Canadian and Luxembourger share Nobel medicine prize for immune system discoveries
Oct 3rd, 2011 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
The Nobel Assembly at the Swedish Karolinska Institutet today decided that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine should be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler, an American and Jules A. Hoffmann, a Luxembourger, for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman, a Canadian, for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.