Harald von Boehmer
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| Born | November 30, 1942 Guben |
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| Occupation | Immunologist |
Harald von Boehmer is a German/Swiss immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes.
He obtained an M.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1968) and a Ph.D. from Melbourne University, Australia (1974). As a member of the Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland (1973-1996), he transferred MHC-restricted antigen specificity with T cell receptor (TCR) a and ß genes and defined the role of positive and negative thymic selection in CD4/8 lineage commitment and self tolerance in TCR transgenic mice. He discovered the pre-T cell receptor, and as director of Unité INSERM 373 at Hôpital Necker, Paris (1996-2000), established its role in T cell development.
Since his appointment at Harvard Medical School in 1999, his work has focused on the generation and lifestyle of regulatory T cells. He was awarded the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (with Nicole le Douarin and Gottfried Schatz) in 1990 and received an honorary M.D. from the Technical University of Munich in 2002.
Harald von Boehmer's work ist cited in Great Experiments, which lists the most significant contributions in the 20th century to the understanding of biology at the molecular and cellular levels.
[edit] Awards
- 1990 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (Geneva)
- 1990 Avery-Landsteiner Prize (Aachen)
- 1993 Paul Ehrlich Prize (Frankfurt)
- 1997 Körber Prize for European Science (Hamburg)
- 2002 Honorary Medical degree of the Technical University of Munich
- 2003 NIH Merit Award (Washington D.C.)
- 2004 Sherman Fairchild Foundation award
