Michael Potter (immunologist)
Michael Potter ( born February 27, 1924 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA, † June 18, 2013 in Bethesda, Maryland) was an American immunologist and cancer researcher.
Potters achievements lay in the investigation of the plasma cell, the cell that produces antibodies. In 1956 he was able to show that certain petroleum products can trigger malignancy of the plasma cells in mice, including plasmacytomas. These tumors can be transplanted and cultured in vitro indefinitely. These cell lines serve as a model for human diseases. Other services were in the study of immunoglobulins and preparatory work for the development of the hybridoma technique for producing monoclonal antibodies - for the César Milstein, Georges Köhler and Niels Jerne in 1984 awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Life
Potter earned a 1949 M.D. at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He then did his military service as a medical officer in the U.S. Army. In 1954 he went to Lloyd Faw to the Department of Leukemia Research at the National Cancer Institute ( NHI ), a facility of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH). Between 1982 and 2003 he headed the Genetics Laboratory. After that, he was a member of the management of B -cell lymphoma working group.