Klaus Rajewsky

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Klaus Rajewsky
Immunologist

Klaus Rajewsky (born 12 November 1936 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German

immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells
.

He studied medicine in Frankfurt,

.

He is one of the founding fathers of the German society for immunology (1967). Since 1994 he has been a member of the

United States National Academy of Sciences
. From 1995 to 2001 he was head of the Monterotondo station of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory near Rome. In 1996 he was awarded the
Robert Koch Prize (shared with Fritz Melchers
). In 1998 he founded Artemis Pharmaceuticals, together with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Peter Stadler.

In 2001 he started working at the Center for Blood Research at

MDC Berlin
.

Klaus Rajewsky is a son of the noted biophysicist Boris Rajewsky, and the father of the renowned systems biologist Nikolaus Rajewsky.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Körber European Science Prize 1997" (PDF). Körber Foundation.
  2. ^ "Dual honors for Klaus Rajewsky". www.mdc-berlin.de. Retrieved 2022-12-29.

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