Our fellow Canadian Ralph M.Steinman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. The Nobel Assembly in 2011 divided the prize among immunologists, granting Steinman half of the award and naming Bruce A.
Today his work has been advanced into successful cancer treatments, first DNDN (only targeting few antigen), and now NWBO's DCVax-L for brain cancer which targets all cancer antigens expressed on the surface of tumors.