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Immunology

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89
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28611
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1115
National Ranking
594

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89
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Association of Immunologists
  • 1990 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the immune system, including much of the work which forms the basis of knowledge of transplantation immunology and regulatory function in the immune response.", Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1980 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions
  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Baruj Benacerraf was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their career involved significant contributions to immunology, particularly in the understanding of genetically determined structures on cell surfaces that regulate immunological reactions.

The scientist received multiple notable awards throughout their career. These include the Nobel Prize in 1980 for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions. In 1990, they were awarded the US President's National Medal of Science, presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony, recognizing their fundamental contributions to the understanding of the immune system, including transplantation immunology and regulatory function in immune response. Benacerraf was also elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1972 and the National Academy of Medicine in 1982. Additionally, they received the AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2001.

Baruj Benacerraf's work had a focus on the immune system and its regulatory mechanisms, influencing knowledge in transplantation immunology. Their research has been foundational in the study of immunological reactions linked to cell surface structures determined genetically.

Best Publications

  • Efficient major histocompatibility complex class I presentation of exogenous antigen upon phagocytosis by macrophages

    Magdalena Kovacsovics-Bankowski;Karen Clark;Baruj Benacerraf;Kenneth L. Rock

  • The regulatory influence of activated T cells on B cell responses to antigen.

    David H. Katz;Baruj Benacerraf

  • A hypothesis to relate the specificity of T lymphocytes and the activity of I region-specific Ir genes in macrophages and B lymphocytes.

    Baruj Benacerraf

  • Effect of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Infection on Transplanted Tumours in the Mouse

    Lloyd J. Old;Donald A. Clarke;Baruj Benacerraf

  • PROPERTIES OF ANTIBODIES CYTOPHILIC FOR MACROPHAGES

    Arthur Berken;Baruj Benacerraf

  • CELL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HISTOINCOMPATIBLE T AND B LYMPHOCYTES : II. FAILURE OF PHYSIOLOGIC COOPERATIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN T AND B LYMPHOCYTES FROM ALLOGENEIC DONOR STRAINS IN HUMORAL RESPONSE TO HAPTEN-PROTEIN CONJUGATES

    David H. Katz;Toshiyuki Hamaoka;Baruj Benacerraf

  • Antigen presentation by hapten-specific B lymphocytes. I. Role of surface immunoglobulin receptors.

    Kenneth L. Rock;Baruj Benacerraf;Abul K. Abbas

  • The Immune Response Genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex

    Baruj Benacerraf;Ronald N. Germain

  • SUPPRESSOR CELLS AND IMMUNOREGULATION

    Martin E. Dorf;Baruj Benacerraf

  • The role of the reticuloendothelial system in the host reaction to neoplasia.

    Lloyd J. Old;Baruj Benacerraf;Donald A. Clarke;Elizabeth A. Carswell

  • A Single Major Pathway of T-Lymphocyte Interactions in Antigen-Specific Immune Suppression

    R. N. Germain;B. Benacerraf

  • Properties of guinea pig 7S antibodies. II. Identification of antibodies involved in passive cutaneous and systemic anaphylaxis.

    Zoltan Ovary;Baruj Benacerraf;Kurt J. Bloch

  • A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE KINETICS OF BLOOD CLEARANCE OF P32-LABELLED ESCHERICHIA COLI AND STAPHYLOCOCCI BY THE RETICULO-ENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM

    B. Benacerraf;Martha M. Sebestyen;Stuart Schlossman

  • Expression and function of the murine B7 antigen, the major costimulatory molecule expressed by peritoneal exudate cells.

    Ziba Razi-Wolf;Gordon J. Freeman;Frances Galvin;Baruj Benacerraf

  • Impairment of antigen-presenting cell function by ultraviolet radiation.

    Mark Irwin Greene;Man Sun Sy;Margaret Kripke;Baruj Benacerraf

  • Functional specificity of thymus- dependent lymphocytes.

    William E. Paul;Baruj Benacerraf

  • Cell Interactions Between Histoincompatible T and B Lymphocytes. The H-2 Gene Complex Determines Successful Physiologic Lymphocyte Interactions

    David H. Katz;Toshiyuki Hamaoka;Martin E. Dorf;Baruj Benacerraf

  • GENETIC CONTROL OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN VITRO V. STIMULATION OF SUPPRESSOR T CELLS IN NONRESPONDER MICE BY THE TERPOLYMER L-GLUTAMIC ACID60-L-ALANINE30-L-TYROSINE10 (GAT)

    Judith A. Kapp;Carl W. Pierce;Stuart Schlossman;Baruj Benacerraf

  • STUDIES ON ARTIFICIAL ANTIGENS : III. THE GENETIC CONTROL OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO HAPTEN-POLY-L-LYSINE CONJUGATES IN GUINEA PIGS

    Bernard B. Levine;Antonio Ojeda;Baruj Benacerraf

  • IMMUNOLOGICAL SPECIFICITY OF DELAYED AND IMMEDIATE HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS

    B. Benacerraf;B. B. Levine

  • Studies on the specificity of the cellular infiltrate of delayed hypersensitivity reactions.

    Stanley Cohen;Robert T. McCluskey;Baruj Benacerraf

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Dorf
Martin E. Dorf Harvard University
Kenneth L. Rock
Kenneth L. Rock University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mark I. Greene
Mark I. Greene University of Pennsylvania
David H. Katz
David H. Katz National Institutes of Health
Ronald N. Germain
Ronald N. Germain National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Steven J. Burakoff
Steven J. Burakoff Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
William E. Paul
William E. Paul National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Jacques Thèze
Jacques Thèze Institut Pasteur
Ira Green
Ira Green National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Kent T. HayGlass
Kent T. HayGlass University of Manitoba

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