Baruj Benacerraf

Past Event

Tuesday, January 01, 1980

Baruj Benacerraf was born in Venezuela in 1920 and immigrated to the United States in 1940. Benacerraf earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Virginia (Now part of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine) in 1945. Benacerraf led the discovery of how (IR) genes dictate immune response. Benacerraf won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980.
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