Jules A. Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann (born 2 August 1941 in Echternach, Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish-French[1] biologist. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he became President of the French Academy of Sciences.
Together with Bruce Beutler, Hoffmann received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" (the other half went to Ralph M. Steinman for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity").[2]
Education
Hoffmann received undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry, and later completed his Ph.D. in biology at the University of Strasbourg in 1969. His post-doctoral training was at the Institut für Physiologische Chemie at Philipps-Universität in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany in 1973-1974.
Research
Hoffmann was a research assistant at CNRS from 1964 to 1968, and became a research associate in 1969. Since 1974 he has been a Research Director of CNRS. Between 1978 and 2005 he was Director of the CNRS research unit “Immune Response and Development in Insects”, and from 1993 to 2005 he was director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of CNRS in Strasbourg.
Hoffmann is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the French National Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Awards
- 2003 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award
- 2004 Robert Koch Prize
- 2007 Balzan Prize together with Bruce A. Beutler for Innate Immunity
- 2010 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award (shared with Ruslan M. Medzhitov)
- 2010 Keio Medical Science Prize
- 2011 Gairdner Foundation International Award (shared with Shizuo Akira)
- 2011 Shaw Prize (shared with Bruce A. Beutler and Ruslan M. Medzhitov)
- 2011 CNRS Gold medal
- 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Bruce Beutler and Ralph M. Steinman)[2]
References
- ^ http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1912.htm
- ^ a b "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011" (Press release). Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2011.
External links
- Jules Hoffmann at the French Academy of Sciences
- Jules Hoffmann at the Balzan Foundation
- HOW WE SENSE MICROBES: GENETIC DISSECTION OF INNATE IMMUNITY IN INSECTS AND MAMMALS