Nobel Medicine Prize goes to immune system specialists

Nobel Medicine Prize goes to immune system specialists

For work on the human immune system have been awarded today in Stockholm
three scientists the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine. One half
of the prize of one million euros, the price goes to two researchers
Bruce Beutler of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California,
and Jules A. Hoffman of the University of Strasbourg. The other half
receives Ralph M. Steinman of Rockefeller University in New York. At the
time of the decision of the Nobel Prize-Committees at the Karolinska
Institute was apparently not aware that the Canadians on 30 Died
September. So the Nobel Prize for the first time in the history of this
award was awarded posthumously, which is not required on the articles of
incorporation.

The three researchers have contributed to elucidate the role of key
stakeholders in the human immune system: Beutler and Hoffmann identified
specific proteins that activate the innate immune system, while the role
of dendritic cells Steinman cleared, which trigger the so-called
adaptive immune response. The researchers managed to lay the foundations
for the development of new medicines, particularly vaccines.