Rudensky, Alexander Yuryevich

Alexandr Yurievich Rudensky (born August 21, 1956, USSR ) ^{[2] [3]} is a Russian-American immunologist, researcher of regulatory T-cells , and transcription factors in FOXP3 ^{[4] [5]} . Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012 ^[6] ) and the US Medical Academy ^[7] , researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (since 1993). He works at the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Memorial Cancer Center , where he is a professor and director of his Ludwig Cancer Immunotherapy Center ^[8] , as well as a professor at Rockefeller and Cornell ( Wail Cornell Medical School ) universities.

Alexander Y. Rudensky
(in 2013)
Date of Birth	August 21, 1956 ( 1956-08-21 ) (62 years)
A country	USSR → Russia → USA
Scientific field	Medicine , biochemistry , immunology
Place of work	Rockefeller University , Cornell University , Sloan Memorial Cancer Center-Kettering , , University of Washington
Alma mater	Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. G. I. Garichevsky,
Academic degree	PhD [1]
Awards and prizes	William Coley Award ( 2015 ) Kraford Prize ( 2017 )
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Received a doctorate degree at the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. GI Garichevsky in Moscow, training completed at the Yale School of Medicine ^[9] .

Together with colleagues Rudensky investigated the development of T-cells. His laboratory specializes in studying the molecules underlying T-cell activity and the role of these cells in immunity ^[10] .

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015) ^[11] . Member of the editorial board of .

Awards and honors

• Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (2015) ^[12]
• William Coley Award (2015) ^{[13] [14]}
• Kraford Prize (2017) ^[15]
• in the field of biomedical sciences (2018) ^[7]