Professor Rolf Zinkernagel

Professor Zinkernagel received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996, for discovering how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. His background includes medicine, microbiology, physiology, pathology, and immunopathology. He is currently Head of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He belongs to some 30 honorary or professional organisations and has been on the editorial board of 34 scientific journals. Over the past few years he has been actively promoting public understanding of gene technology, animal experiments, and science in general.