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class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tashkent_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Tashkent State University">Tashkent State University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University">Moscow State University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Immunology" title="Immunology">Immunology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ruslan Maksutovich Medzhitov</b> (born March 12, 1966) is a professor of immunobiology and dermatology at the <a href="/wiki/Yale_School_of_Medicine" title="Yale School of Medicine">Yale School of Medicine</a>, and an investigator at the <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute" title="Howard Hughes Medical Institute">Howard Hughes Medical Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His research focuses on the analysis of the innate immune system, inflammatory response, innate control of the adaptive immunity, and host-pathogen interactions. In 2010, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2017 he was named <a href="/wiki/Sterling_Professor" title="Sterling Professor">Sterling Professor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruslan_Medzhitov&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ruslan Medzhitov was born in 1966 in <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a>. He earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">Bachelor of Science</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tashkent_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Tashkent State University">Tashkent State University</a> before going on to pursue a PhD in biochemistry at <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University">Moscow State University</a>. In 1992 he read an article by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Janeway" title="Charles Janeway">Charles Janeway</a> about a hypothetical flip-flop triggered <a href="/wiki/Innate_immunity" class="mw-redirect" title="Innate immunity">innate immunity</a>. </p><p>Before coming to Yale, he was a fellow in the laboratory of <a href="/wiki/Russell_Doolittle" title="Russell Doolittle">Russell Doolittle</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego" title="University of California, San Diego">University of California, San Diego</a>. A graduate student with no special immunological training, he realized that it was necessary to find <a href="/wiki/Pattern_recognition_receptor" title="Pattern recognition receptor">pattern-recognizing receptors</a> and was determined to do so. He wrote to Janeway about his desire to work on this topic, but he did not immediately accept him into his laboratory. He did his <a href="/wiki/Post-doctoral_training" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-doctoral training">post-doctoral training</a> with Janeway at Yale University School of Medicine from 1994 to 1999. </p><p>In 1997, Medzhitov and Janeway proved that humans have a <a href="/wiki/Toll-like_receptor" title="Toll-like receptor">Toll-like receptor</a> (later named <a href="/wiki/TLR4" class="mw-redirect" title="TLR4">TLR4</a> ), which activates genes necessary for the <a href="/wiki/Immune_response" title="Immune response">immune response</a>. In 2000, Medzhitov was selected as a Searle Scholar. On April 27, 2010, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/US_National_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="US National Academy of Sciences">US National Academy of Sciences</a> and became one of the youngest academicians. In 2011, the Russian edition of <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Forbes magazine">Forbes</a></i> published a list of 50 Russians who “conquered the world”. It includes scientists, businessmen, cultural and sports figures who have integrated into the world community and have achieved success outside of Russia. Medzhitov was included in this Forbes list of 10 famous scientists of Russian origin.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 15, 2012, Medzhitov was awarded a diploma and a medal of the Honorary Professor at <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University">Moscow State University</a>, where he regularly reads his lectures. Currently, he serves as a <a href="/wiki/Sterling_professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sterling professor">Sterling professor</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_School_of_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale University School of Medicine">Yale University School of Medicine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruslan_Medzhitov&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He has received the William Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology from the Cancer Research Institute, a Master of Arts Privatum at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, the Emil von Behring Award, AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award, a doctorate <i>honoris Causa</i> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Munich" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Munich">University of Munich</a>, the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from the University of Chicago, the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_S._Rosenstiel_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award">Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award</a> for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research in 2010, and the <a href="/wiki/Dickson_Prize" title="Dickson Prize">Dickson Prize</a> in 2019. </p><p>In recognition of his prolific contributions to the field of immunological research, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> and in 2011 he was a co-recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Shaw_Prize" title="Shaw Prize">Shaw Prize</a> in Life Science and Medicine. In 2013, Medzhitov received the <a href="/wiki/The_Vilcek_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Vilcek Foundation">Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruslan_Medzhitov&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, Medzhitov married <a href="/wiki/Akiko_Iwasaki" title="Akiko Iwasaki">Akiko Iwasaki</a>, a professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. They have two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruslan_Medzhitov&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/ruslan-medzhitov/">"Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD"</a>. <i>medicine.yale.edu</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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