quickly rose through the academic ranks to become the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology in 1974. While at Harvard University, he and his colleagues made observations in the areas of immunoglobulin capping on B cells and host defenses to bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes. That work culminated in the conclusion that MHC molecules mediate the display of processed peptides to T cells. Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri From 1985 to 2006, Unanue was the chairman of pathology and immunology and Mallinckrodt Professor at Washington University School of Medicine. He was preceded in that position by Dr. Paul Eston Lacy, and succeeded by Dr. Herbert "Skip" Virgin. Unanue's current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, the immunological basis of autoimmune diabetes, and immune responses to intracellular bacteria. Awards 1989 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award 1995 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 2000 Gairdner Foundation International Award 2005 Robert Koch Gold Medal 2014 American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award References External links Lasker Award Recipients' Page Faculty Webpage at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine ISI Highly Cited Researchers "From antigen processing to peptide-MHC binding", Nature Immunology - 7, 1277 - 1279 (2006) 1934 births 2022 deaths Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Pittsburgh alumni Harvard Medical School faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty American people of Cuban descent American immunologists Scripps Research University of Havana alumni Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Members of the National Academy of Medicine