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Mary E. Brunkow
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American molecular biologist and immunologist
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Mary Elizabeth Brunkow is an American molecular biologist and immunologist. Born in Portland in 1961, she holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and has worked in the fields of immunology, molecular biology, and genetics. Her doctoral advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman. She has been employed by the Institute for Systems Biology and UCB.
Brunkow is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Medicine collections. Her academic education includes studies at the University of Washington and Princeton University. She speaks English and has authored five works.
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5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,802x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,191x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x
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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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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2025
“for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”
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Encyclopedic overview
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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