Charles A. Dinarello

Charles A. Dinarello (born April 22, 1943) is a professor of medicine currently at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is an expert on inflammatory cytokines, specifically Interleukin 1.

Charles A. Dinarello
Charles Dinarello, 2010
Born (1943-04-22) April 22, 1943
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityUnited States
Alma materYale University
Known forResearch on inflammatory cytokines
AwardsErnst Jung Prize (1993)
Crafoord Prize (2009)
Albany Medical Center Prize (2009)
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2010)
Tang Prize (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
Immunology
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Denver

Dinarello received his Doctor of Medicine in 1969 at Yale University and since 1996, he is Professor of Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Experimental Medicine at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dinarello is considered one of the founding fathers of cytokines having purified and cloned interleukin-1. This important step established the validation of cytokines as mediators of disease, particularly of inflammation. Current studies blocking IL-1 in humans supports Dinarello's and his co-workers pivotal contributions to cytokine biology and the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases.

He is fluent in English, Italian and German.

Awards

References
  1. Press Release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Immune system researchers win $500K medical prize
  3. "Charles Dinarello". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. Tang Prize 2020
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