Nobel Prize Winner Peter Doherty To Lecture

Peter Doherty, an immunologist and co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, will deliver a lecture entitled “Immunity in Respiratory Virus Infections” at noon on Wednesday, June 18.

The talk, to be held in the Biotechnology Auditorium, Room 1111 of the new Genetics/Biotechnology Building, 425 Henry Mall, is part of the UW–Madison Medical School department of pathology’s seminar series.

Doherty, chair of the department of immunology at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for discovering how T cells, a critical component of the immune system, recognize virus-infected cells. His work advanced immunology and laid the foundation for modern medical assaults on viral-borne diseases such as AIDS.