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Peter Cresswell

Peter Cresswell
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Peter Cresswell FRS is a British immunologist, and Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology and of Dermatology, at Yale School of Medicine. His lab primary focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing particularly the functions of the (MHC) molecules and CD1 molecules. He is most notable for discovering and identifying the MHC class II molecules and viperin.

He earned a B.S., and M.S. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and a Ph.D. from London University.

He studied at Harvard University, with Jack Strominger.

He has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1991.

He is a Section Head of the Faculty of 1000, a member of the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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