ImmunoID history
Category: Other
Updated: 6 Nov 2017
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Created byLudo Desvignes
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10th Century AD
Variolation (smallpox)
Song Dynasty, China1721
Variolation introduced in the West
from the Ottoman Empire
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, UK1796
Smallpox vaccine (cowpox)
by Edward Jenner, UK1884
Postulates
Robert Koch, Germany1880
Germ theory of diseases
Louis Pasteur, France1882
Macrophages
Elie Metchnikoff, Russia1890
Diphteria serotherapy
Emil von Behring, Germany
Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japan1900
Discovery of antibodies and complement
Paul Ehrlich, Germany1942
Adjuvants
Jules Freund & Katherine McDermott, USA1948
Antibody secretion by plasma cells
Astrid Fagraeus, Sweden1937
Yellow Fever vaccine
Max Theiler, USA1957
Interferons
Alick Isaacs, UK
Jean Lindenmann, Switzerland1921
BCG vaccine
Albert Calmette & Camille Guerin, France1961
Thymus and cellular immunity
Jacques Miller, Australia/USA1973
Dendritic cells
Ralph Steinmann, Canada/USA1952
Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk, USAYou are here2005
HPV vaccine
Ian Frazer, Australia
Jian Zhou, China1997
TLRs
Jules Hoffman, Luxembourg/France
Bruce Beutler, Charles Janeway, USA1983
TCR
John Kappler, Phillippa Marrack, USA
Ellis Rheinherz, James Ellison, USA
Tak Wah Mak, China/Canada
Mark Davis, USA1983
HIV isolation
Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barre-Sinoussi, France1965
MHC/HLA
Jean Dausset, France
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuela/USA
George Davis Snell, USA1986
Recombinant HBV vaccine
Pablo DT Valenzuela, Chile/USA - Chiron1968
MMR vaccine
Maurice Hilleman, USA - Merck2014
Experimental Ebola serotherapy (ZMapp)
PHA-NML, Canada
USAMRIID, USA
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