on December 17, 2006
Professor Rolf Martin Zinkernagel is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.Together with the Australian Peter Doherty he received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.With this he became the 24th Swiss Nobel Laureate. He received his MD from the University of Basel in 1970 and his PhD from the Australian National University in 1975. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he also won The Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in 1995. His talk was entitled “Against dogma and against feelings”and was followed by a Journal Club and an informal dinner.
