Mary E. Brunkow
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Person
- Born
- 1961-04-23
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5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,195x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,960x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,371x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 14,779x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,288x
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Key facts
- Born
- 1961 (age 64 – 65), Portland, Oregon , U.S.
- Education
- University of Washington ( BS ), Princeton University ( PhD )
- Known for
- FOXP3
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2025)
- Fields
- Immunology , Molecular biology
- Institutions
- Institute for Systems Biology , Celltech R&D
- Thesis
- Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991)
- Doctoral advisor
- Shirley M. Tilghman
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Key dates
- Born
- 23 April 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Portland
- Occupation
- immunologist
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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Mary Elizabeth Brunkow (born 1961) is an American molecular biologist, immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for co-identifying the gene later named FOXP3 as the cause of the scurfy mouse phenotype, a finding that became foundational for modern regulatory T cell biology.
In 2025, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work in peripheral immune tolerance.
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