Charles A. Dinarello

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Charles A. Dinarello
Charles Dinarello, 2010
Born	(1943-04-22) April 22, 1943 (age 81) Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University
Known for	Research on inflammatory cytokines
Awards	Ernst Jung Prize (1993) Crafoord Prize (2009) Albany Medical Center Prize (2009) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2010) Tang Prize (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine Immunology
Institutions	University of Colorado Denver

Charles A. Dinarello (born April 22, 1943) is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is an expert on inflammatory cytokines, specifically Interleukin 1.

Education and career

Dinarello received his Doctor of Medicine in 1969 at Yale University and since 1996, he is Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Experimental Medicine at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dinarello is considered one of the founding fathers of cytokines having purified and cloned interleukin-1.^[1] This important step established the validation of cytokines as mediators of disease, particularly of inflammation. Current studies blocking IL-1 in humans supports Dinarello's and his co-workers pivotal contributions to cytokine biology and the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases.^[2]

He is fluent in English, Italian and German.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

1993: Ernst Jung Prize
2006: Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009: Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (together with Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Toshio Hirano) “for their pioneering work to isolate interleukins, determine their properties and explore their role in the onset of inflammatory diseases”.^[3]
2009: Albany Medical Center Prize (shared with Ralph M. Steinman and Bruce A. Beutler)^[4]
2010: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
2010: Novartis Prize in Clinical Immunology (together with Juerg Tschopp).
2011: Foreign membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[5]
2020: Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science.^[6]

References

^ Dinarello, Charles A (2015-03-31). "The history of fever, leukocytic pyrogen and interleukin-1". Temperature. 2 (1): 8–16. doi:10.1080/23328940.2015.1017086. ISSN 2332-8940. PMC 4843879. PMID 27226996.
^ Garlanda, Cecilia; Dinarello, Charles A.; Mantovani, Alberto (2013). "The Interleukin-1 Family: Back to the Future". Immunity. 39 (6). Elsevier BV: 1003–1018. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2013.11.010. ISSN 1074-7613. PMC 3933951.
^ Press Release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Immune system researchers win $500K medical prize
^ "Charles Dinarello". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
^ Tang Prize 2020

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