Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at... Wikipedia
Born: January 14, 1943, Montreal, Canada
Died: September 30, 2011 (age 68 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Education: Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and McGill University
Notable students: Bruce Beutler, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Ira Mellman, and more
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Ralph Steinman discovered, in 1973, a new cell type that he called the dendritic cell. In cell culture experiments he demonstrated that dendritic cells can ...
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The work of Ralph Steinman is a remarkable example of research focused on the understanding of the cellular basis of the immune response. In the early 1970s, it ...