Introduction
Jack Leonard Strominger (born August 7, 1925) is Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard University, specializing in the structure and function of human histocompatibility proteins and their role in disease. He won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995.
Life
Strominger was born in New York City. He studied at Harvard University and completed his degree in psychology in 1944. He received his MD in 1948 from Yale Medical School, and joined the faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1964–68. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1968, and became a member of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1974.
Strominger was the first recipient of the Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology in 1968. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970, and the National Institute of Medicine in 1975. In 1999 he received the Japan Prize.