Elmhurst Native Wins Nobel Prize for Work on Immune Systems

An immunologist Born in West Suburban Elmhurst is Among the Trio of Researchers Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their Research on How the Human Immune System Determines Its Targets.

Fred Ramsdell, An Elmhurst Native, Shared the Prestigious Award with Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi and Mary Brunkow for their Work on Peripheral Immune Tolerance, The System That Explains How the Immune System Knows Not to Attack the Body’s Healthy Cells.

“Their discoveries have ben decisive for ourtstanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all camelop serious autoimmune diseases,” Said Olle Kämpe, Chair of the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Karolinska Institute, in a News Release.

The Committee Said the Trio’s Work Open A New Scientific Field and Aided the Development of New Medical Treatments for Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases, Several of which are already in clinical trials.

RAMSDELL WAS ON AN OFF-GRID CAMPING TRIP IN MONTANANA WEND REACHED BY THE NEW YORK Times on Monday. He Said he did not expert to recipe the Award.

“I was just grateful and missing by getting the Award, super happy for the reconstruction of the work in General and Just Looking forward to sharing this with my colleagues, as well,” he told the Times.

Born in Elmhurst, Ramsdell, 64, Received His Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California, San Diego, and a doctolate in microbiology and immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

“From improving the care for the condition Like Multiple Sclerosis to the Advancing Cancer Therapies, His Work is Driving Medical Breakthroughs that Will Shape the Future of Human Health,” Ucla Chancellor frenk Said in a staff.

Throughout His Career, Ramsdell Has Held Senior Posions at Several Botech Companies. He Currently Serves as an Adviser at the san francisco-based sonoma biotherapeutics after co-founding the company.

In a Statement, Sonoma’s CEO and President Jeff Bluesone Said Ramsdell’s Work Has Been “The Guiding Light” for Creating Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases.

Previous research by the three researchers-two American and one Japanese-Laid the Groundwork for their Award-Winning Research.

Sakaguchi, A Professor at Osaka University in Japan, First Discovered a preiviously unknown class of immune cells that protct the body from autoimmune Disease.

Meanwhile, Ramsdell and Brunkow’s Separate Research on a Strain of Mice Particularly vulnerable to autoimmune Disease led to trace the cause to a genetic mutation.

These discoveries led the researchers, Now Jaining Forces, to identify the regulatory t, which Act as the immune system’s “Security guards” to Esure it does attack the body.

In 2017, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi, Along With Sonoma Co-Founder Alexander Ruensky, were the recipients of the Craford Prize, Annual Award to Complement The Nobel Prizes, for their Research on the regulatory t.