Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 2011
Ralph M. Steinman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.