John Kappler Explained

Birth Date:	22 December 1943
Birth Place:	Baltimore, MD
Workplaces:	National Jewish Health HHMI
Alma Mater:	Lehigh University, BA, chemistry Brandeis University, PhD, biochemistry^[1]
Known For:	discovery of T cell receptor
Awards:	Wolf Prize in Medicine, 2015
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Website:	KM 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: John W. Kappler.
2. Web site: John Kappler, PhD. https://web.archive.org/web/20080517143811/http://www.uchsc.edu/pharmacology/faculty/kappler/kappler.shtm. dead. May 17, 2008. November 2, 2008.
3. [John Rennie (editor)|Rennie, J.]