Bruce
Beutler, M.D., the 2010 Will Rogers Institute Annual Prize Recipient
for Lung Research, has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.
Dr. Beutler is also Chair of the
Department of Genetics at The Scripps Research Institute and professor
and director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at UT
Southwestern Medical Center,
Bestowed
annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for achievements in
physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and peace, the
prize recognizes individuals who, as stipulated in Alfred Nobel's will,
"have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." The prize carries a
cash award of about a million dollars.
Beutler
was awarded half of this year's prize along with Jules A. Hoffmann "for
their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"; the
other half goes to Ralph Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic
cell and its role in adaptive immunity."
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WRI 2012 Award for Lung Research Recipient