Jean Dausset's Kevo

Dr. Jean Baptiste Gabriel Dausset was born in Toulouse, France, and received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1943. He has been called one of the great gentlemen of science; hard-working, insightful and modest.

In World War II, he interrupted his scientific endeavors to go to North Africa and fight with the Free French. Before leaving Paris, he turned over all his identification papers to a fellow scientist at the Pasteur Institute, a Jew who had survived the war by passing himself off as Jean Dausset.

In 1948, Dr. Dausset was a fellow in hematology at the Harvard Medical School, and he was a fellow in immunohematology the next year. He became associate professor of medicine at the University of Paris in 1962, then full professor and director of the immunohematology laboratory at St. Louis Hospital, also in Paris, in 1969. In 1970-71, he spent his sabbatical working with Dr. Rapaport in the Department of Surgery at the New York University School of Medicine. In 1979 he was named to the chair of experimental medicine at the prestigious College de France.

A renowned scientist, Dr. Dausset is also an art expert and was once co-owner of an Impressionist gallery, Le Gallerie du Dragon. He and his wife, Rosita, have two children, Enric and Irene.

In addition to the Wolf Prize, Dr. Dausset's honors include the 1970 Stratton Award of the International Hematology Society, the 1970 Scientific Grant Prize of the City of Paris and the 1971 Karl Landsteiner Award from the American Association of Blood Banks. He received the Nobel Prize in 1980 for his research contributing to the progress in human organ transplant.
Work History
1984-Present Director, Human Polymorphism Study Center

1977-1987 prof. exptl. medicine, Coll. de France, Paris

1969-1948 Director research unit on immunogenetics, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris,

1963-1977 Professor Immunohematology, University of Paris

1950-1963 Director Laboratory, National Transfusion Center

1946-1950 intern, then resident in internal medicine and hematology, Paris Mcpl. Hosps.
Affiliations
Mem. Academie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., NAS (Washington).
Awards
Jean Dausset has also won numerous Awards