Jules A. Hoffmann

Awards

1. 2011

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For his ground-breaking discovery of the family of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection.

2. 2011

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity

3. 2011

   Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

   Biology

   For their discovery of the molecular mechanism of innate immunity, the first line of defense against pathogens.