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美国加利福尼亚理工学院分子遗传学家勒鲁瓦·胡德(Leroy Hood)博士,今年9月获得了声望很高的拉斯克基础医学研究奖。胡德是三个获奖者之一,它的研究有助于解释免疫系统是怎样产生各种各样保护人体免受异物侵袭的抗体。一般认为,免疫系统对于治愈多种人体疾病是至关重要的。在这个领域中所授予的诺贝尔奖金的数目便可说明这一事实。两周前,同胡德共获拉斯克奖的麻省理工学院遺传学家舍川因研究抗体而获得了诺贝尔奖。加利福尼亚理工学院生物系主任胡德向时报记者吉尔·斯图尔特(Jill Stewart)讲述了他的研究成果和发现经过。
Dr. Leroy Hood, a molecular geneticist at the California Institute of Technology, received the prestigious Lasker Award for Research in Basic Medicine in September this year. Hood is one of three winners and his research helps explain how the immune system produces a wide variety of antibodies that protect the body from foreign bodies. It is generally believed that the immune system is crucial for the cure of many human diseases. The fact that the number of Nobel Prizes awarded in this area is illustrative. Two weeks ago, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for antibody research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's geneticist Sheva, who won the Lasker Award with Hood. Hood, a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, told the Times reporter Jill Stewart about his findings and discoveries.