Awards & Winners

Frank J. Dixon

Date of Birth 09-March-1920
Place of Birth Saint Paul
(United States of America, Minnesota, Ramsey County, Area code 651)
Nationality
Also know as Frank Dixon
Frank James Dixon was an award-winning biomedical researcher, best known for his research into diseases of the immune system that can damage other organs of the body. Dixon was also noted for having developed techniques involving trace iodines to study proteins. Born in St. Paul, Dixon received his bachelor's and M.D. from the University of Minnesota. He joined the United States Navy in 1943, after completing his M.D. Dixon was a co-founder and director of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

Awards by Frank J. Dixon

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1975


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For demonstrating, in a series of brilliant experimental studies with model systems in laboratory animals, that immunologic responses, which ordinarily serve to protect the individual, may actually cause injury and disease.)

1969


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his outstanding contributions in immunology and immunopathology, particularly his investigations dealing with the elucidation of the pathogenesis of serum sickness and of experimental and human glomerulonephritis.)