Meet the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winner tracking the evolution of our cells
Gabriel Victora, an immunologist who's studying how our bodies respond to foreign invaders, won a MacArthur "genius" grant — to his surprise.
by Megan Thielking
Oct 12, 2017
2 minutes
This year’s crop of MacArthur “geniuses” included artists, writers, computer scientists — and one biomedical researcher: Gabriel Victora, an immunologist who’s studying how our bodies respond to foreign invaders.
Victora — who runs an immunology research lab at Rockefeller University in New York City — didn’t pick up the phone the first time the folks at MacArthur tried to call to notify him he’d won the award. Nor did he pick up the
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