Emil von Behring was a German physiologist and physician who, working alongside Kitasato Shibasaburo at Robert Koch's Imperial Health Office in 1890, developed serum therapy, immunizing animals against diphtheria and tetanus toxins and then using their antibody-rich serum to treat afflicted patients. By 1894, refined production methods made human trials of diphtheria antitoxin dramatically successful against a disease that had been a leading cause of childhood death, and Behring went on to found a pharmaceutical company to manufacture the treatment at scale. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ever awarded, specifically for his work on serum therapy and its application against diphtheria.
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Why did Emil von Behring receive the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
In 1901 Behring received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ever awarded, specifically for his work on serum therapy and its application against diphtheria. He had developed serum therapy in 1890, working alongside Kitasato Shibasaburo at Robert Koch's Imperial Health Office, by immunizing animals against diphtheria and tetanus toxins and then using their antibody-rich serum to treat afflicted patients. By 1894 refined production methods made human trials of diphtheria antitoxin dramatically successful against a disease that had been a leading cause of childhood death.
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March 15, 1854
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March 31, 1917
In Group: Vaccine and Antibiotic Developers, Introduction, sentence 2
In 1901, he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths".
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Emil Adolf Behring was born on 15 March 1854 in Hansdorf, Germany.
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Emil Adolf von Behring died on 31 March 1917.
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