identified as being responsible for the rejection of incompatible tissues during transplantation. Zinkernagel and Doherty discovered that the MHC was responsible for the body fighting meningitis viruses too. Awards and honours Doherty was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987. In 1997, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. He is the patron of the eponymous Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health. It houses a group of infection and immunology experts, including Director Professor Sharon Lewin, who are charged with leading the battle against infectious diseases in humans. This became operational in 2014. He became an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015. In the same year he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS). In April 2017 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria (FRSV). John Monash Science School, Moreton Bay Boys College, and Murrumba State Secondary College each have a house named after him. Non academic publications Personal life , Peter Doherty and his wife Penny live in Melbourne. They have two sons, Michael, a neurologist working in the United States, and James, a Melbourne-based barrister, and six grandchildren. Doherty currently spends three months of the year conducting research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center through the College of Medicine. For the other 9 months of the year, he works in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, Victoria. References External links Noble Prize biographical information (including his Nobel Lecture on "Cell Mediated Immunity in Virus Infections") Radio Interview from This Week in Science 5 September 2005 broadcast "Winning a Nobel: easy as wrestling a pig", by Margaret Wertheim, Cosmos magazine, October 2006 Peter Doherty delivers the opening address at the 2009 Melbourne Festival of Ideas on ABC Fora (video) (video) 1940 births Living people Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Australian National University faculty Australian Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Australian of the Year Award winners Companions of the Order of Australia Australian immunologists Australian veterinarians Male veterinarians People from