Confirmed Steinman winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

• May 4, 2024

The Nobel Committee He informed that he will not take away the prize from the Canadian Ralph M. Steinman , awarded with the Nobel of Medicine , despite the fact that hours after the announcement it was announced that he died.

Steinman was distinguished with Medicine Nobel 2011 , beside Bruce Beutler of the United States and Jules Hoffman of France. The Rockefeller University In New York, where Steinman was working since 1970, he announced that he died on September 30 at the age of 68.

Ralph M. Steinman, lost his life as a result of a pancreatic cancer , reported a spokesman for the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the Rockefeller University in New York.

The information published on the portal Vanguardia.com He noted that Steinman was honored for the "discovery of dendritic cells - which activate the immune system - and its role in adaptive immunity." The Canadian made his discovery in 1973.

The Nobel Prize for Medicine is endowed with 10 million Swedish crowns (1.4 million dollars / 1.1 million euros) Steinman discovered the dendritic cell and demonstrated that science can fruitfully exploit the power of these and other components of the immune system to face infections and other contagious diseases.

The scientist was diagnosed pancreatic cancer four years ago and his life was prolonged thanks to an immunotherapy of his own design based on the use of dendritic cells .

Steinman was born in 1943 in Montreal, Canada. He studied biology and chemistry at McGill University in Canada and medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Until his death, he worked at Rockefeller University in New York.

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