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