Issue of
October 22, 1997

Nobelist Doherty to give Schultz Lecture

Dr. Peter C. Doherty, chair of immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital of Memphis, Tenn., will deliver the 13th Edwin Schultz Memorial Lecture, “Immunity to Persistent Gamma Herpesviruses,” on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Fairchild Auditorium.

Doherty and former collaborator Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, director of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich, won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for revolutionary experiments that explained the mechanism of T-cell recognition and cell-mediated immunity.

Doherty began his career as a veterinary officer in Australia and went on to serve as a senior scientific officer at the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1972, he joined the Australian National University in Canberra as a research fellow. In 1975, he was named an associate professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. He returned to Australian National University as head of the Department of Experimental Pathology in 1982 and was recruited to St. Jude in 1988.

The lectureship honors Dr. Edwin D. Schultz, who served as chair of medical microbiology at Stanford for 33 years.