Ralph Steinman
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Ralph Steinman was a Canadian scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries about how the immune system recognizes and fights disease, particularly through his work on a type of immune cell called dendritic cells. His research fundamentally changed our understanding of immunity and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011, shortly before his death.
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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Steinman was one of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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1943 births2011 deathsAcademics from MontrealAnglophone Quebec peopleCanadian expatriate academics in the United StatesCanadian immunologistsCanadian medical researchersCanadian Nobel laureatesCell biologistsDeaths from pancreatic cancer in New York (state)Harvard Medical School alumniHarvard Medical School faculty