Ruslan Medzhitov

Ruslan Medzhitov
Born	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	Tashkent State University Moscow State University
Notable awards	Shaw Prize

Ruslan M. Medzhitov is a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His research focuses on the analysis of the innate immune system, inflammatory response, innate control of the adaptive immunity, and host-pathogen interactions.

Ruslan Medzhitov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and earned a bachelor of science at Tashkent State University before going on to pursue a PhD in biochemistry at Moscow State University. Before coming to Yale, he was a fellow in the laboratory of Russell Doolittle at the University of California in San Diego. His post-doctoral training was with Charles Janeway at Yale University School of Medicine from 1994 to 1999.

In 2000, Ruslan Medzhitov was selected as a Searle Scholar. His scientific contributions have been recognized with many awards, including the William Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology from the Cancer Research Institute, a Master of Arts Privatum at Yale University, the Emil von Behring Award, AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award, a doctorate honoris Causa at the University of Munich, the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from the University of Chicago, and the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research in 2010. The same year, in recognition of his prolific contributions to the field of immunological research, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences], the elite corps of researchers from the nation’s top scientific institutions, and in 2011 he was a co-recipient of the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. In 2013, Medzhitov received the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.^[1]

References

↑ Gu, Jiahe. "Yale Researchers Receive the Vilcek Prize". Yale Scientific Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-11.

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Shaw Prize laureates

Astronomy	Jim Peebles (2004) Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor (2005) Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2006) Peter Goldreich (2007) Reinhard Genzel (2008) Frank Shu (2009) Charles Bennett, Lyman Page and David Spergel (2010) Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman (2011) David Jewitt and Jane Luu (2012) Steven Balbus and John Hawley (2013) Daniel Eisenstein, Shaun Cole and John Peacock (2014) William Borucki (2015) Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (2016)

Life science and medicine	Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer, Kan Yuet-wai and Richard Doll (2004) Michael Berridge (2005) Xiaodong Wang (2006) Robert Lefkowitz (2007) Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka (2008) Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman (2009) David Julius (2010) Jules Hoffmann, Ruslan Medzhitov and Bruce Beutler (2011) Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich (2012) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young (2013) Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Walter (2014) Bonnie Bassler and Everett Peter Greenberg (2015) Adrian Bird and Huda Zoghbi (2016)

Mathematical science	Shiing-Shen Chern (2004) Andrew Wiles (2005) David Mumford and Wu Wenjun (2006) Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor (2007) Vladimir Arnold and Ludvig Faddeev (2008) Simon Donaldson and Clifford Taubes (2009) Jean Bourgain (2010) Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard S. Hamilton (2011) Maxim Kontsevich (2012) David Donoho (2013) George Lusztig (2014) Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniec (2015) Nigel Hitchin (2016)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 166629587 LCCN: n2004119967 ISNI: 0000 0001 1726 1184 SUDOC: 080101690 BNF: cb16973418w (data)

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