Nobel laureate dies

摘要

Immunologist Baruj Benacerraf (pictured), who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetic basis of the immune system, died on 2 August, aged 90. Benacerraf was born in Venezuela and brought up in France, but it was at New York University in the 1950s and 1960s that he traced how guinea pigs' varying immune responses to the same antigen depended on specific genes. From 1980 to 1992, he was president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.