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Ralph Steinman
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Ralph Steinman

Scientist · born January 14, 1943 · died 2011

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Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University.

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  1. ~64Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research2007
  2. ~68Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2011

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