John Kappler

Lehigh University, BA, chemistry
Brandeis University, PhD, biochemistry^[1]

Known fordiscovery of T cell receptorAwardsWolf Prize in Medicine, 2015Scientific careerInstitutions

National Jewish Health
HHMI

WebsiteKM lab website

John Wayne Kappler (born December 22, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland) is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health.^[2] His principal research is in T cell biology, a subject he collaborates on with his wife Philippa Marrack.^[3] In 1983 they discovered the T cell receptor, together with Ellis Reinherz and James Allison.

Awards

1986 – Appointed investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1989 – Elected member, National Academy of Sciences
1993 – Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award
1993 - Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
1994 – Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry (Columbia University)
2015 – Wolf Prize in Medicine

References

^ "John W. Kappler".
^ "John Kappler, PhD". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
^ Rennie, J. (1992) Profile: Philippa Marrack and John Kappler – Keeping It In the Family, Scientific American 267(2), 43-44.

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Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Medicine

1970s

George Snell / Jean Dausset / Jon J. van Rood (1978)
Roger Sperry / Arvid Carlsson / Oleh Hornykiewicz (1979)

1980s

César Milstein / Leo Sachs / James L. Gowans (1980)
Barbara McClintock / Stanley Norman Cohen (1981)
Jean-Pierre Changeux / Solomon H. Snyder / James W. Black (1982)
Donald F. Steiner (1984/5)
Osamu Hayaishi (1986)
Pedro Cuatrecasas / Meir Wilchek (1987)
Henri G. Hers / Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1988)
John Gurdon / Edward B. Lewis (1989)

1990s

Maclyn McCarty (1990)
Seymour Benzer (1991)
Judah Folkman (1992)
Michael Berridge / Yasutomi Nishizuka (1994/5)
Stanley B. Prusiner (1995/6)
Mary F. Lyon (1996/7)
Michael Sela / Ruth Arnon (1998)
Eric Kandel (1999)

2000s

Avram Hershko / Alexander Varshavsky (2001)
Ralph L. Brinster / Mario Capecchi / Oliver Smithies (2002/3)
Robert Weinberg / Roger Y. Tsien (2004)
Alexander Levitzki / Anthony R. Hunter / Tony Pawson (2005)
Howard Cedar / Aharon Razin (2008)

2010s

Axel Ullrich (2010)
Shinya Yamanaka / Rudolf Jaenisch (2011)
Ronald M. Evans (2012)
Nahum Sonenberg / Gary Ruvkun / Victor Ambros (2014)
John Kappler / Philippa Marrack / Jeffrey V. Ravetch (2015)
Lewis C. Cantley / C. Ronald Kahn (2016)
James P. Allison (2017)
Jeffrey M. Friedman (2019)

2020s

Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer Doudna (2020)
Joan Steitz / Lynne Elizabeth Maquat / Adrian Krainer (2021)
Daniel J. Drucker (2023)

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