Bruce Beutler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bruce Beutler

American immunologist and geneticist

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: scientist, physician, professor, geneticist, immunologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American immunologist and geneticist.
Together with Jules A.
Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" (the other half went to Ralph M.
Steinman for "his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity").Beutler is currently Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.