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Jean Dausset

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Also known as Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset, Jean Baptiste Gabriel Joachim Dausset, Ioannes Dausset

French immunologist (1916-2009)

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Jean Dausset was a French immunologist who lived from 1916 to 2009 and made important discoveries about how the human immune system recognizes and rejects foreign tissues. His work laid the foundation for understanding organ transplant compatibility and earned him recognition in the field of immunology.

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  • Transplantation Surgery
  • Tissue Typing : Symposium Organized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion at the 10th Congress of the European Society of Haematology, Strasbourg, August 1965. Special Topic Issue
  • H.L.A. and disease
  • Tissue typing
  • Hacia el hombre responsable

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1980

    for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 92.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Dausset” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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