Charles Janeway's interest in medicine was inspired by his parents: his father Charles Alderson Janeway was physician-in-chief at Boston Children's Hospital from 1946 to 1974 and his mother was a social worker at the Boston Lying-In Hospital.
10 Facts About Charles Janeway
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Charles Janeway trained in basic-science research with Hugh McDevitt at Harvard, John Humphrey at the National Institute for Medical Research in England, and with Robin Coombs at Cambridge University in England.
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Charles Janeway completed an internal medicine internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
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Charles Janeway was one of the leading immunologists of his generation, studying the innate immune system and the biology of T cells.
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Charles Janeway made fundamental contributions to many other areas of immunology, including co-discovery of bacterial superantigens.
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Together with Alexander Rudensky, Charles Janeway characterized how self antigens associate with MHC class II molecules.
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Charles Janeway is particularly well known as the lead author of Immunobiology, a standard textbook on immunology.
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Charles Janeway served on the board of directors of several research institutes, including the Trudeau Institute, and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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Charles Janeway was president of the American Association of Immunologists from 1997 to 1998.
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Charles Janeway died on April 12,2003, in his home in New Haven, Connecticut.