Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Rolf Zinkernagel
Zinkernagel in 2011
Born (1944-01-06) 6 January 1944
Education
Known forCytotoxic T cells
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
InstitutionsUniversity of Zurich
ThesisThe role of the H-2 gene complex in cell-mediated immunity to viral and bacterial infections in mice (1975)
Websitewww.immunology.uzh.ch/aboutus/emeriti/zinkernagel.html
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Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC (born 6 January 1944) is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.