ABOVE: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Vincenzo Cerundolo, an immunologist at the University of Oxford, died last week (January 7) of non-smoking-related lung cancer. He was 60.
Cerundolo “is a scientific star for his discoveries,” Netherland Cancer Institute oncologist John Haanen and University of Lausanne cancer researcher Solange Peters wrote last year on a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for Cerundolo’s treatment. “Apart from his great scientific work (he is still publishing!), [he] is a fantastic and warm human being, and a very dear friend.”
Cerundolo was born in Lecce, Italy, on December 20, 1959 and later studied medicine at the University of Padua, where he stayed, earning his PhD in immunology in 1987. He then moved to the Medical Research Council (MRC) Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford for a postdoc with Alain Townsend, where he investigated the way T cells recognize and ...
