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Institute of Medicine

The Institute of Medicine is a policy research organization that is recognized as a national resource of judgment and veracity in the analysis of issues relating to human health. The Institute's members are elected on the basis of their professional achievement and commitment to service.

Fourteen members of the Institute of Medicine are currently associated with The Rockefeller University.

Discovered in 1973 by Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., and the late Zanvil A. Cohn, M.D., the dendritic cell provides the link between the outside world and the body's protectorate. Its specialties are capturing and processing potentially harmful materials and presenting those materials to the immune system's other cells. Without the dendritic cell, the immune system would be just like a powerful machine without controls, or an operator to work them. With our growing knowledge of this specialized cell, clinical researchers are poised to greatly enhance their development of immune-based therapies.

2007 Jeffrey Ravetch
2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman
2002 Ralph M. Steinman
2000 Günter Blobel
1999 Barry S. Coller
1999 Paul Greengard
1998 Bruce S. McEwen
1997 Jan L. Breslow
1997 David D. Ho
1996 Torsten Wiesel
1994 Elaine Fuchs
1993 Jules Hirsch
1988 Emil C. Gotschlich
1971 Joshua S. Lederberg