Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder Maini win Dr. Paul Janssen Award ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 23:00

(Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.) Professor Marc Feldmann and Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder Maini of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London have been named the recipients of the 2008 Dr.

Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research by an independent selection committee of world-renowned scientists.

The award salutes scientists in basic research whose scientific achievements have made a measurable impact on human health.

Feldmann and Maini were selected for their role in the discovery of tumor necrosis factor-alpha.

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