The foundation's Public Service Award went to Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, for his commitment to advocating public funding for medical research. The five immunologists, who made key contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of immune recognition by T cells, were selected as the recipients in the Basic Research category. They are:
Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty, a professor in the departments of pediatrics and pathology at the University of Tennessee's Memphis College of Medicine;
Jack Strominger, a professor in the department of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University;
Emil Unanue, a professor of pathology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis;
Don Wiley, chairman of the department of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator there; and
Rolf Zinkernagel
Rolf Zinkernagel, director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
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