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Michel C. Nussenzweig
Brazilian immunologist (born 1955)
Michel C. Nussenzweig (born 10 February 1955) is a professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at The Rockefeller University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
He is a member of both the US National Academy of Medicine and the US National Academy of Sciences.
Education and career
Nussenzweig graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree from New York University College of Arts and Sciences in 1975.
He earned a Ph.D.
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from The Rockefeller University in 1981 in cellular immunology, working in Zanvil A. Cohn’s laboratory with Ralph M. Steinman on groundbreaking studies of mouse dendritic cells.
As a Ph.D. student, Nussenzweig was the first to show that dendritic cells present foreign antigens to initiate T cell immunity.[1] He also produced the first dendritic cell-specific monoclonal antibody and cloned the first dendritic cell receptor.[2]
Nussenzweig received an