Immunologist, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. He studied veterinary science at the universities of Queensland and Edinburgh, and with Zinkernagel carried out research into the immune system, using laboratory mice, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, in the 1970s. In 1988 he moved to the St Jude Children's Research Hospital at the University of Tennessee. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his contribution to the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells - research which was first reported in 1974. He also shared the Paul Erlich Prize (1983) and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award (1995) for this research.
He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996, and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.Doherty's research focuses on the immune system. He received his bachelor's degree in veterinary science in 1962 and his master's degree in veterinary science in 1966 from the University of Queensland. After obtaining his PhD in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he returned to Australia to perform his Nobel Prize-winning research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra. Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
His semi-autobiographical book, "The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize," was published by Columbia University Press, New York, in 2006.
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