1. Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France.
41 Facts About Jean Dausset
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Jean Dausset married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irene.
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Jean Dausset died on June 6,2009, in Majorca, Spain, at the age of 92.
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Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was born on 19 October 1916, in Toulouse, France.
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Jean Dausset's father was from the Pyrenees, and was a doctor by profession, and his mother was a housewife from Lorraine.
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Jean Dausset's father was head doctor at the Bayonne Hospital, a position that would make a great impression on Jean.
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Jean Dausset was home schooled by his mother, as well as by a tutor, who would periodically come to the house.
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Jean Dausset began his formal schooling at the Lycee Michelet, at age 15.
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Jean Dausset failed to pass an internship entrance exam at the Paris Hospitals, and was preparing for a second attempt when World War II broke out.
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Jean Dausset was enlisted in the French army, and sent off to Northern Italy for a year.
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Jean Dausset was originally stationed in Morocco, but was later sent to the more active Tunisia.
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Jean Dausset got his first taste of hematology when he had to perform numerous blood transfusions on wounded soldiers.
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Jean Dausset formed a group of radical doctors who pushed for change in the French medical system.
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The physician Robert Debre worked with Jean Dausset, and pushed the government into forming a committee for the reform of medical education.
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Jean Dausset worked as an immunohematologist and was interested in anaemic patients who required blood transfusions, he found that these patients lacked both red and white blood cells.
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In 1948, Jean Dausset went to work as an intern in the Children's Hospital in Boston.
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Jean Dausset worked there in a hematology lab for about four years.
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Jean Dausset returned to France in 1952 and took up the position of an intern with Marcel Bessis.
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From 1952 to 1957, majority of Jean Dausset's time went into developing techniques and developing further ways of confirming the presence of certain antibodies.
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Jean Dausset was testing the ability of the antigen-presenting leucocytes in the recipient's body, which came originally from the donor's blood.
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In 1958, Jean Dausset discovered an antibody called MAC which was a leuco-agglutinate; the abbreviation MAC actually stands for the initials of the names of the donors whose blood Jean Dausset and his colleagues had used during the research.
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From 1960 to 1965 Jean Dausset worked primarily on improving organ transplantation techniques and the mechanisms involved in enhancing the body's ability to accept the new tissue.
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In 1963 Jean Dausset became the head of the immunology at the Hopital Saint-Louis in 1963.
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Jean Dausset was the assistant director of the Research Institute in Blood diseases until 1968, he then became the director of the "Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale" transplantation immunogenetics research unit.
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Jean Dausset founded France Transplant and France Greffe de Moelle, which brings matching donor organs to recipients and provides bone marrow for transplant respectively.
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Jean Dausset began his research shortly after obtaining his medical degree in 1945, while working as an intern in the hematology lab at the Children's Hospital in Boston.
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Jean Dausset went on to publish more works in the field of hematology, including developing a technique in 1952 for the removal of plasma from red blood cells to be used in transfusions to patients somehow intolerant of whole blood transfusions.
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In 1962, Jean Dausset published an examination of the correlation between leuco-agglutination and skin graft tolerance, his first observation of the antigens' impact on histocompatibility.
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Jean Dausset contributed to multiple studies, particularly a number relating to genetics, but did not publish anything for which he claimed primary authorship for over a decade.
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In 1975, Jean Dausset suspected that his name had been entered in the nominations for the Nobel Prize.
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At this point, Jean Dausset was planning on going to Quebec, Canada to do a conference series throughout the province.
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Jean Dausset was in a dilemma because if did win, he did not want to be away from his family and colleagues, and yet, were he to stay in France, people would suspect that he was sure of winning and he might set himself up for disappointment.
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Jean Dausset was unsurprisingly awarded the Nobel Prize 1980, which he shared with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell.
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In 1984 Jean Dausset founded the Centre D'etude du Polymorphisme Humain, aiming to detect the major genes in humans that are responsible for diseases outside the HLA system.
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In 2003, at the age of 87, Jean Dausset retired and became the president of CEPH.
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Jean Dausset was a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Jean Dausset was a professor at the college de France.
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Jean Dausset was one of the influential foreign members of the National Academy of Sciences, US, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jean Dausset was a member of the founding Council and Vice President of the Human Genome Organization.
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Jean Dausset received various prestigious prizes, such as the Landsteiner Award and prizes for the Koch and Wolf Foundations.
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Jean Dausset served on the advisory boards of numerous research institutions.