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| | Dr. Peter Doherty, St. Jude Hospital Immunologist, wins Nobel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D., and Rolf M. Zinkernagel, M.D., immunologists whose experiments revolutionized the field by explaining the mechanism of T-cell recognition in cell-mediated immunity, have won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine. |
 | | Doherty is chairman of the immunology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and Dr. Zinkernagel is professor and director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
 | | Doherty is now focusing on the analysis of T cell memory and the ways that T cells control viruses that can cause tumors. |
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