Bruce A. Beutler
Born: 1957, Chicago, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award:The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Born: 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Ralph M. Steinman
Born: 1943, Montreal, Canada
Died: 30 September 2011
Affiliation at the time of the award:Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"