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J. Donald Capra
J. Donald Capra (1937–2015) was an American immunologist who unified key concepts of antibody biology and led the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1997 to 2006.
J. Edwin Blalock
J. Edwin Blalock is an American molecular biologist and immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for showing that leukocytes produce hormones and for work on chronic lung disease.
J. Swanson Beck
J. Swanson Beck, full name John Swanson Beck (1928–2007), was a Scottish immunopathologist who pioneered antinuclear antibody testing and was Professor of Pathology at Dundee from 1971 to 1993.
Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset (1916–2009) was a French immunologist who discovered the HLA system, the cell-surface proteins governing transplant acceptance, and shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
John J. Cebra
John J. Cebra (1934-2005) was an American immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for showing that Peyer's patches are the source of the gut's IgA-producing plasma cells.
Joseph B. Bolen
Joseph B. Bolen is an American immunologist known for defining how src-family tyrosine kinases initiate signaling in lymphocytes, then leading oncology research at Millennium and Moderna.
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), Austrian-born physician and immunologist, discovered the ABO blood groups in 1900–1901 and the Rh factor with Wiener, enabling safe blood transfusion; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930, Rockefeller Institute.
Katia Georgopoulos
Katia Georgopoulos is an American immunologist who identified Ikaros, a master regulator of lymphocyte development, and is Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Kim D. Janda
Kim D. Janda is an American medicinal chemist and immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering vaccines against drugs of abuse.
Leonard Herzenberg
Leonard Herzenberg (1931–2013) was an American immunologist and geneticist at Stanford University who led the development of the fluorescence-activated cell sorter, winning the 2006 Kyoto Prize.
Lieping Chen
Lieping Chen (陈列平) is a Yale immunologist whose laboratory discovered PD-L1 (B7-H1) in 1999 and showed the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway lets tumors evade immune attack, founding cancer immunotherapy.
Ludvig Hektoen
Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951) was an American pathologist and immunologist who pioneered immunology in the United States, heading pathology at the University of Chicago from 1901 to 1932.
Mark H. Kaplan
Mark H. Kaplan is an American immunologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine known for defining how STAT4 and STAT6 control T helper cell differentiation.
Mark K. Jenkins
Mark K. Jenkins, published as Marc K. Jenkins, is an American immunologist whose 1987 work with Ronald Schwartz showed that T cells lacking co-stimulation become anergic.
Paul Roberts Cannon
Paul Roberts Cannon (1892–1986) was an American pathologist and immunologist at the University of Chicago who showed that dietary protein is required to maintain resistance to infection.
Paul W. Kincade
Paul W. Kincade (1944–2025) was an American immunologist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation known for work on B cell development, and a president of the American Association of Immunologists.
Pierre Grabar
Pierre Grabar (1898–1986) was a French biochemist and immunologist, born in Kiev, who co-developed immunoelectrophoretic analysis with C. A. Williams in 1952 and spent most of his career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
R.R.A. Coombs
R.R.A. Coombs, born Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs, was a British immunologist at Cambridge, known for the 1945 Coombs test and the Gell–Coombs classification of hypersensitivity.
Ralf Küppers
Ralf Küppers is a German molecular geneticist and B-cell immunologist, professor at University Hospital Essen since 2004, known for establishing the B-cell origin of Hodgkin lymphoma.
Richard A. Lerner
Richard A. Lerner (1938–2021) was an American chemist and immunologist who led Scripps Research for two decades and created antibody technologies behind drugs like Humira.
Shoshana Levy
Shoshana Levy (1939–2022) was an Israeli-born American immunologist who identified the tetraspanin family of cell-surface proteins in 1990, best known for their role in cancer metastasis.
Sylvain Latour
Sylvain Latour is a French CNRS immunologist who directs a laboratory at Institut Imagine in Paris, known for identifying inborn errors of immunity to Epstein-Barr virus.
Theresa L. Walunas
Theresa L. Walunas is an American immunologist and biomedical informatician, first author of the 1994 paper showing CTLA-4 is a negative regulator of T cell activation.
Thomas A. Ferguson
Thomas A. Ferguson is an immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies cell death, immune privilege, and autophagy in the eye, including corneal transplant success.
Toshio Hirano
Toshio Hirano (平野俊夫), born 1947 in Osaka, is a Japanese immunologist at Osaka University who discovered interleukin 6 in 1986, work behind the drug tocilizumab and the 2011 Japan Prize.
Vincent P. Butler
Vincent P. Butler was an American physician-scientist and immunologist at Columbia University who reported the first digoxin-specific antibodies in 1967, enabling the digoxin radioimmunoassay and antibody treatment of digitalis toxicity.
Yasumasa Ishida
Yasumasa Ishida (石田 靖雅) is a Japanese immunologist at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology who discovered and named the PD-1 gene in 1991.
Yoshimasa Iwai
Yoshimasa Iwai is a Japanese immunologist who, as first author of the 2002 and 2005 papers, established the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway as a target of cancer immunotherapy.
Zelig Eshhar
Zelig Eshhar (1941–2025) was an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who invented the chimeric antigen receptor, earning him the description father of CAR-T cancer therapy.