学术人物第六期：MICHEL C. NUSSENZWEIG

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MICHEL C. NUSSENZWEIG, M.D., PH.D.

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute                                         
Senior Physician
Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

The Rockefeller University

lab link: http://www.rockefeller.edu/resea ... /MichelNussenzweig/

CAREER

Dr. Nussenzweig received his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 from The Rockefeller University, where he studied under Ralph M. Steinman, and his M.D. in 1982 from the New York University School of Medicine. He continued his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, first as an intern and resident in internal medicine from 1982 to 1985 and then as a clinical fellow in infectious diseases from 1984 to 1985. In 1986 he began his postdoctoral research in genetics at Harvard Medical School and returned to Rockefeller in 1990 as assistant professor. He was named associate professor in 1994 and professor and senior physician in 1996. He has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1999.

Dr. Nussenzweig was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Institute of Medicine in 2009. He received the Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research in 2008, the American Association of Immunologists-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award in 2004 and the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award for Basic Science from New York University in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Nussenzweig is a faculty member in the David Rockefeller Graduate Program and theTri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program.