The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Baruj Benacerraf
Title:
Chairman, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and President & Chief Executive Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
Boston,Massachusetts 02115 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2011
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
1990
Citation:
"For his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the immune system, including much of the work which forms the basis of knowledge of transplantation immunology and regulatory function in the immune response."
Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1980