STOCKHOLM — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program ...
Sakaguchi's 1995 discovery of regulatory T cells revealed a complex immune tolerance system beyond central tolerance. Brunkow and Ramsdell identified the Foxp3 gene mutation in 2001, linking it to ...