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Els Goulmy
Els Goulmy, born in 1946, is a Dutch immunologist who identified the first human minor histocompatibility antigens at Leiden, shaping stem cell transplantation; she won the 2002 Spinoza Prize.
Elvin A. Kabat
Elvin A. Kabat (1914–2000) was an American immunochemist at Columbia University who first demonstrated that antibodies are gamma globulins and, with mentor Michael Heidelberger, founded quantitative immunochemistry; his antibody numbering system remains in use.
Eugene C. Butcher
Eugene C. Butcher is an immunologist and physician, Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology at Stanford, who pioneered the multistep paradigm of white blood cell recruitment and won the 2004 Crafoord Prize.
Francis Brambell
Francis William Rogers Brambell (1901–1970) was an Irish-born medical scientist and zoologist, professor at Bangor, who discovered how mothers transfer passive immunity to their young.
Frank W. Fitch
Frank W. Fitch (1929–2021) was an American immunologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered T cell cloning and subsets, and made the first anti-mouse CD4 monoclonal antibody.
Freda K. Stevenson
Freda K. Stevenson, born in 1939, is a British immunologist and Emerita Professor at Southampton known for DNA fusion-gene vaccines against lymphoma and CLL immunogenetics.
Frédéric Martinon
Frédéric Martinon is a French immunology researcher whose 1993 paper was the first use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA as a vaccine, tested against influenza in mice.
Georges Köhler
Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who co-developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Gideon Goldstein
Gideon Goldstein is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for co-discovering ubiquitin in 1975 and for isolating thymopoietin, a hormone of the thymus, at Sloan-Kettering.
Giuseppe Matarese
Giuseppe Matarese, born in Naples in 1970, is an Italian immunologist and professor at Federico II Naples known for arguing that overnutrition can break immunological self-tolerance.
Gordon J. Freeman
Gordon J. Freeman is an American immunologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who identified PD-L1 and PD-L2 as the ligands of PD-1.
Gustav Nossal
Gustav Nossal, born 1931, is an Austrian-born Australian immunologist who showed that one immune cell produces one antibody and directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne from 1965 to 1996.
Hannah J. Gould
Hannah J. Gould is an immunologist at King's College London known for her research on IgE and IgD, the antibodies involved in allergy and asthma.
Harry Gideon Wells
Harry Gideon Wells (1875–1943) was an American pathologist and immunologist who chaired pathology at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1925.
Hassan Jumaa
Hassan Jumaa (born 1965 in Sanamein, Syria) is a molecular immunologist who has headed the Institute of Immunology at the University Hospital of Ulm since 2013.
Heinz Köhler
Heinz Köhler is an immunologist known for studies of antibody diversity, idiotypy, and immune networks, including anti-idiotype vaccines, now emeritus at the University of Kentucky.
Henry Metzger
Henry Metzger (1932–2018) was a German-born American immunologist at NIH who showed how IgE receptor aggregation triggers mast cell activation in allergy, and led NIAMS research.
Henry Sherwood Lawrence
Henry Sherwood Lawrence, known as H. Sherwood Lawrence, was an American immunologist at New York University who discovered transfer factor in 1949 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Herman N. Eisen
Herman N. Eisen (1918–2014) was an American immunologist who showed that antibodies are bivalent, described affinity maturation, and discovered serine esterases made by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Herman Waldmann
Herman Waldmann, born in 1945, is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford known for developing the therapeutic antibody Campath-1, now the drug alemtuzumab.
Hitoshi Kikutani
Hitoshi Kikutani is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Osaka University known for identifying CD23 as the IgE receptor and pioneering the immune semaphorin concept.
Ian F. C. McKenzie
Ian F. C. McKenzie is an Australian physician-scientist and immunologist known for identifying the Galα(1,3)Gal antigen target of pig-to-human transplant rejection and for founding the Austin Research Institute.
Ian S. Trowbridge
Ian S. Trowbridge was a British immunologist and cell biologist who spent nearly three decades at the Salk Institute in San Diego, identifying the transferrin receptor and CD45 before his death in 2013.
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.
J. Wayne Streilein
J. Wayne Streilein (1935–2004) was an American immunologist who showed that immune privilege in the eye is actively maintained suppression, and was president of Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
Jacques Oudin
Jacques Oudin (1908–1985) was a French physician and immunologist at the Institut Pasteur who developed immunodiffusion in gels and discovered allotypy and idiotypy in antibodies.
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 Ding‐E Young
John Ding-E Young (杨定一), born 1958, is a Taiwanese-born immunologist best known for purifying and characterizing perforin, the pore-forming protein killer lymphocytes use to destroy target cells.