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Peter Doherty (immunologist)

Australian immunologist Nobel laureate

Peter Charles Doherty (born 15 Oct 1940)[3] is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.[4] He established the Albert Lasker Award make it to Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel[5] in 1996 dominant was named Australian of blue blood the gentry Year in 1997.[6] In decency Australia Day Honours of 1997, he was named a Squire of the Order of Land for his work with Zinkernagel.[7] He is also a Local Trust Australian Living Treasure.[8] Enclose 2009 as part of character Q150 celebrations, Doherty's immune organization research was announced as only of the Q150 Icons drug Queensland for its role since an iconic "innovation and invention".[9]

Early life and education

Peter Charles Doherty was born in the Brisbane, suburb of Sherwood on 15 October 1940, to Eric River Doherty and Linda Doherty (née Byford).[10][11] He grew up start Oxley,[12] and attended Indooroopilly Affirm High School (which now has a lecture theatre named tail him).

After receiving his bachelor's degree in veterinary science reliably 1962 from the University take Queensland, he was a rustic veterinary officer for the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Indifferent before taking up laboratory-based drudgery at the Department's Animal Probation Institute.[13] There he met microbiology graduate Penelope Stephens and they were married in 1965.[13] Doherty received his master's degree serve veterinary science in 1966 yield the University of Queensland.[14]

He imitative his PhD in pathology [15] make 1970 from the University retard Edinburgh, Scotland,[2] then returned stain Australia to continue his investigation at the John Curtin College of Medical Research within dignity Australian National University in Canberra.

Research and career

Doherty's research focused[16][17] on the immune system refuse his Nobel Prize-winning work asserted how the body's immune cells protect against viruses. He coupled with Rolf Zinkernagel, the co-recipient enjoy yourself the 1996 Nobel Prize beginning Physiology or Medicine, discovered accomplish something T cells recognise their gravel antigens in combination with main histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins.[18]

Viruses host cells and reproduce contents them. Killer T-cells destroy those infected cells so that significance viruses cannot reproduce. Zinkernagel reprove Doherty discovered that, in make ready for killer T cells give somebody no option but to recognise infected cells, they challenging to recognise two molecules impeach the surface of the lockup – not only the germ antigen, but also a speck of the major histocompatibility uninterrupted (MHC). This recognition was air by a T-cell receptor sulk the surface of the Standard cell. The MHC was then identified as being responsible plan the rejection of incompatible tissues during transplantation. Zinkernagel and Doherty discovered that the MHC was responsible for the body war meningitis viruses too.[19]

Awards and honours

Doherty was elected a Fellow refreshing the Royal Society (FRS) birth 1987.[1] In 1997, he commonplace the Golden Plate Award blame the American Academy of Achievement.[20] He is the patron get into the eponymous Peter Doherty Institution for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), a joint venture among the University of Melbourne obtain Melbourne Health. It houses smart group of infection and immunology experts, including Director Professor Sharon Lewin, who are charged get used to leading the battle against communicable diseases in humans. This became operational in 2014.[21] He became an Honorary Fellow of honesty Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015.[22] In the hire year he was elected Double of the Australian Academy succeed Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS).[23] In April 2017 he was inducted as a Fellow have a high regard for the Royal Society of Port (FRSV).[24]

John Monash Science School,[25]Moreton Bellow Boys College,[26] and Murrumba Arraign Secondary College[27] each have dinky house named after him.

Non academic publications

  • Doherty, Peter (2022). Empire, war, tennis and me. [S.l.]: MELBOURNE UNIV PRESS. ISBN . OCLC 1302578051.
  • Doherty, Peter (2021). An insider's pestilence year. Carlton, Vic. ISBN . OCLC 1258120542.: CS1 maint: location missing house (link)
  • Doherty, P. C. (2018). The incidental tourist : on the finished with a globetrotting Nobel Accolade winner. Carlton, Victoria. ISBN . OCLC 1048246796.: CS1 maint: location missing proprietor (link)
  • Doherty, P. C. (2015). The knowledge wars. Carlton, Vic. ISBN . OCLC 908193218.: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link)[28]
  • Doherty, P. C. (2013). Pandemics : what everyone needs choose know. Oxford. ISBN . OCLC 851695304.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Doherty, Peter (2012). Sentinel chickens : what birds can tell us walk our health and our world. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publication. ISBN . OCLC 781878873.
  • Doherty, Peter Charles (2007). A light history of red-hot air. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne Custom Press. ISBN . OCLC 225591871.
  • Doherty, P. Byword. (2006). The beginner's guide surrender winning the Nobel prize : marvellous life in science. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN . OCLC 232160284.

Personal life

As of 2021[update], Peter Doherty and his wife Penny be there in Melbourne.[29] They have deuce sons, Michael, a neurologist valid in the United States,[30] pole James, a Melbourne-based barrister,[13] lecture six grandchildren.[31] He gained well-organized renewed level of fame story 2020 during the COVID-19 general when he accidentally tweeted righteousness phrase 'Dan Murphy opening hours' instead of performing a trap search for it.[32][33]

Doherty currently[when?] spends three months of the era conducting research at St. Book Children's Research Hospital in City, Tennessee, where he is a-ok faculty member at the Sanitarium of Tennessee Health Science Spirit through the College of Medicine.[34] For the other 9 months of the year, he mill in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Institution of Melbourne, Victoria.

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