Jack L. Strominger

Jack Leonard Strominger ( born August 7, 1925 in New York City ) is an American immunologist and professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Strominger made ​​in the field of molecular immunology fundamental work for understanding the human immune response. His main area of ​​research was the structure and function of proteins of the major histocompatibility complex.

Life

Strominger acquired in 1948 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948 and a bachelor's degree at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, an MD

A first junior professor ( assistant professor in 1955, associate professor in 1958 ) received Strominger at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1960 a full professorship. In 1964 he was appointed to the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin, and in 1968 he became a professor of biochemistry at Harvard University. Since 1983, he conducted research at Dana -Farber Cancer Institute. Strominger conducts even in old age, a research group (as of 2011 ) at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.

Jack electricity Ingers son Andrew is a theoretical physicist and string theorist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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