Ralph Steinman: Dendritic cells bring home the Lasker

Dendritic Cells Bask in the Limelight

Ralph Steinman is to receive the 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his discovery of dendritic cells and his path-breaking work demonstrating their central role as the principal antigen-presenting cells of the immune system and key activators of T cell responses.

Dendritic cells and vaccines.

prestigious 2007 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for the discovery of dendritic cells. The award committee called him “a scientific sleuth, who without cloak and dagger, uncovered the intelligence-gathering component of our immune system—a monumental achievement in the 200-year history of immunology.” Dr. Steinman came to Baylor on September 20, 2007, as part of the celebration o...

In memory of Ralph Steinman

On October 3rd of this year, we were excited to hear the news that Ralph M. Steinman had received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of dendritic cells and their role in adaptive immunity. However, we were immediately in profound shock and grief by the news that he had passed away three days earlier from pancreatic cancer, which had troubled him for 4 years. The committee decided not...

Dendritic Cells in Transplantation — Review

Ralph M. Steinman 1943–2011

Ralph M. Steinman, professor of immunology at The Rockefeller University in New York and one of the great immunologists of our time, died on September 30 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer, just three days before the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the dendritic cell. Steinman is universally recognized for having given ...