Jean Dausset

Awards

1. 1977

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For recognition of the effects of histocompatibility antigens in humans, and his continuing leadership in the application of this knowledge to such diverse fields as transplantation immunology and the study of genetically determined diseases.

2. 1978

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for discovering the HL-A system, the major histocompatibility complex in man and its primordial role in organ transplantation.

3. 1980

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions