Jack Strominger
Jack Strominger · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who determined the structure of the human MHC molecules central to immune recognition.
1925, New York City, USA
United States (Yale · Wisconsin · Harvard University)
Jack Strominger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biochemist who determined the structure of the human MHC molecules central to immune recognition.
Born in New York City into a Jewish family and trained in medicine at Yale, Strominger first explained how penicillin kills bacteria by blocking cell-wall synthesis. He then devoted decades to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), and with Don Wiley isolated, crystallized and determined the three-dimensional structures of human MHC class I and II molecules in 1987. Because MHC proteins present fragments of pathogens to the immune system, his structures revealed the molecular basis of immune recognition; he received the 1995 Lasker Award.
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Biochemist who determined the structure of the human MHC molecules central to immune recognition.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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