Nobel Prize Winner Peter Doherty To Lecture

Peter Doherty, an immunologist and co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, will deliver a lecture entitled "Immunity in Respiratory Virus Infections" at noon on Wednesday, June 18.

The talk, to be held in the Biotechnology Auditorium, Room 1111 of the new Genetics/Biotechnology Building, 425 Henry Mall, is part of the UW-Madison Medical School department of pathology's seminar series.

Doherty, chair of the department of immunology at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for discovering how T cells, a critical component of the immune system, recognize virus-infected cells. His work advanced immunology and laid the foundation for modern medical assaults on viral-borne diseases such as AIDS.