Peter C. Doherty
Australian immunologist Nobel laureate (born 1940)
The University of Melbourne
Brisbane
Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.
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Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.
Affiliation
The University of Melbourne
Top Publications
- Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system (1974) - 2,113 citations
- MHC-Restricted Cytotoxic T Cells: Studies on the Biological Role of Polymorphic Major Transplantation Antigens Determining T-Cell Restriction-Specificity, Function, and Responsiveness (1979) - 1,945 citations
- Influenza (2018) - 1,642 citations
- Lack of IL-4-induced Th2 response and IgE class switching in mice with disrupted Stat6 gene (1996) - 1,300 citations
- Requirement for Stat4 in interleukin-12-mediated responses of natural killer and T cells (1996) - 1,198 citations
At a glance
- Full name
- Peter C. Doherty
- Born
- 1940-10-15
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-5028-3489
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5074692390
Research interests
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Influenza Virus Research Studies, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Virology and Viral Diseases
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- 2,113OpenAlex citations
- 1,945OpenAlex citations
- Influenza ↗2018 · Nature Reviews Disease Primers1,642OpenAlex citations
- 1,300OpenAlex citations
- 1,198OpenAlex citations
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- Influenza ↗2018 · Nature Reviews Disease Primers
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1996) — for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence
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