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Charles Janeway

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Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1909-1981) was a noted immunologist. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he held a faculty position at Yale University's medical school and was an HHMI Investigator. He was also the son of the pediatrician Charles Alderson Janeway.

He is particularly well known as the lead author of Immunobiology, a standard textbook on immunology, which has been renamed Janeway's Immunobiology for the latest edition in memory of its late lead author.

References

  • Janeway, et al. Immunobiology. 6th ed. ISBN 0-8153-4101-6. (5th ed. is online courtesy NCBI, see this page.)