Bruce Beutler

Bruce Alan Beutler M.D. (born December 29, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American immunologist and geneticist of Jewish descent.^[1] Together with Jules Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" (the other half went to Ralph Steinman for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity").^[2]

Beutler is currently Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Genetics at The Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California. His father, Ernest Beutler, a hematologist and medical geneticist, was also a Professor and Department Chairman at Scripps.^[3]

1. ↑ "Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine".
2. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011" (Press release). Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2011.
3. ↑ "Frederick-J-Beutler - User Trees - Genealogy.com". www.genealogy.com.