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Jean Dausset
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded…
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science · French immunologist (1916–2009) · physician · physiologist · immunologist · chemist · professor · professeur des universités · hematologist · researcher · also Jean Dausset, Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset, Jean Baptiste Gabriel Joachim Dausset, Ioannes Dausset, Dausset
Born 19 October 1916 · Died 6 June 2009 · Q152760
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2014· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Dr. Jean Dausset dies at 92; scientist’s discovery made tissue typing for transplants possible
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2009· 6 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Professor Jean Dausset
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The Scientist: Jean Dausset dies
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Le Monde.fr: Jean Dausset, immunologiste, Prix Nobel de médecine
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MyPharma Editions: Décès du Professeur Jean Dausset, prix Nobel de médecine en 1980
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Le Figaro: Décès du Pr Jean Dausset, Prix Nobel de Médecine
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Died 2009-06-06.
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2003· 1 entry
At the age of 87, Dausset retired and became the president of CEPH
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1990).
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1984· 2 entries
Dausset founded the Centre D’étude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), aiming to detect the major genes in humans that are responsible for diseases outside the HLA system
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Which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980).
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Along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1978).
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1977).
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Awarded Robert Koch Prize (1977).
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1975· 1 entry
Dausset suspected that his name had been entered in the nominations for the Nobel Prize
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Prix de l'Etat (1967).
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Won CNRS silver medal (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Examining the effects of Hu-1 antigen injection on skin graft rejection further confirmed the conclusion that this Hu-1 complex was indeed a transplantation antigen, a conclusion which would in time have profound effects
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1964· 1 entry
When he observed a clear relationship between leucocyte antigen compatibility and antibody response to skin grafts
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1963· 2 entries
With whom he had two children, Henri and Irène
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Jean Dausset became the head of the immunology at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in 1963
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1962· 1 entry
Dausset published an examination of the correlation between leuco-agglutination and skin graft tolerance, his first observation of the antigens’ impact on histocompatibility
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1958· 1 entry
Dausset discovered an antibody called MAC which was a leuco-agglutinate; the abbreviation MAC actually stands for the initials of the names of the donors whose blood Dausset and his colleagues had used during the researc
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1954· 1 entry
When Dausset first observed an anti-leucocyte agglutinating substance, though it was not until 1958 that he identified an isoantibody specific to leucocytes, and published his findings
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1952· 3 entries
And once again took up the position of an intern with Marcel Bessis
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For the removal of plasma from red blood cells to be used in transfusions to patients somehow intolerant of whole blood transfusions
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Returned to France and continued his research, particularly focusing on hemolytic anemia, and publishing several works dealing with various forms of blood cell agglutination
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1950· 1 entry
And dealt with the detection of incomplete antibodies using trypsinized erythrocytes in a plasmatic medium, a technique that displayed improved sensitivity over other techniques used at the time
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1948· 1 entry
Dausset went to work as an intern in the Children's Hospital in Boston
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1945· 1 entry
While working as an intern in the hematology lab at the Children’s Hospital in Boston
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1944· 1 entry
Dausset returned to Paris where he worked in the Regional Blood Transfusion Center at the Saint-Antoine Hospital
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1940· 1 entry
Dausset studied ardently and passed his medical internship exam
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-10-19.
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