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Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss immunologist (born 1944)
Rolf Martin ZinkernagelAC (born 6 January 1944) is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich.
Rolf zinkernagel biography of michael
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.[2][3]
Education
Zinkernagel received his MD degree from the University of Basel in 1970 and his PhD from the Australian National University in 1975.[4]
Career and research
Zinkernagel is a member of the Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Council,[5] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[6] The National Academy of Sciences,[7] the American Philosophical Society,[8] and The Academy of Cancer Immunology.
Zinkernagel was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Science also in 1996.
Awards and honours
Together with the Austral