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Mary E. Brunkow

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Mary E. Brunkow

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Also known as Mary Brunkow, Mary E Brunkow, Mary Elizabeth Brunkow

American molecular biologist and immunologist

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Country
US
Active from
1972-10

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5 total works indexed

  1. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

    · 1987 · cited 42,802x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,860x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,776x

  4. Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults

    · 1998 · cited 15,191x

  5. Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

    · 1998 · cited 12,383x

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Key facts

Born
1961 (age 64 – 65), Portland, Oregon , U.S.
Education
University of Washington ( BS ), Princeton University ( PhD )
Known for
FOXP3
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2025)
Fields
Immunology , Molecular biology
Institutions
Institute for Systems Biology , Celltech R&D
Thesis
Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991)
Doctoral advisor
Shirley M. Tilghman

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2025

    “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”

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Encyclopedic overview

Mary Elizabeth Brunkow (born 1961) is an American molecular biologist, immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for co-identifying the gene later named FOXP3 as the cause of the scurfy mouse phenotype, a finding that became foundational for modern regulatory T cell biology.

In 2025, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work in peripheral immune tolerance.

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