Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for understanding how the immune system is kept under control without attacking organs"

We believe that Shimon Sakaguchi's nomination for the Nobel Prize is a huge and well-deserved success, for his work and contribution to understanding how the immune system works. Dr Sakaguchi is known among immunologists as the “father of regulatory cells”. He has helped us to understand that the immune system has a series of resources to control the activation necessary to defend us from harmful attacks (such as cancer and infections of all kinds). It was one of the first discoveries of these control mechanisms. In addition, Sakaguchi has made a significant effort to share his discoveries and train scientists in this fascinating area of immunology.