Arnold E. Reif (July 15, 1924 in

Vienna, Austria Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

- June 14, 2018) was an American academic who made early contributions to

cancer research Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure. Cancer research ranges from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the performance of clinical trials to evaluate ...

. Reif is best known for his 1964 discovery of the first

T cell T cells (also known as T lymphocytes) are an important part of the immune system and play a central role in the adaptive immune response. T cells can be distinguished from other lymphocytes by the presence of a T-cell receptor (TCR) on their cell ...

marker, an

antigen In immunology, an antigen (Ag) is a molecule, moiety, foreign particulate matter, or an allergen, such as pollen, that can bind to a specific antibody or T-cell receptor. The presence of antigens in the body may trigger an immune response. ...

he later named

Thy-1 Thy-1 or CD90 (Cluster of Differentiation 90) is a 25–37 k Da heavily N-glycosylated, glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchored conserved cell surface protein with a single V-like immunoglobulin domain, originally discovered as a thymocyte anti ...

. His Google Scholar H-index is 25. He is the author of 119 publications.

Books

*''Immunity and Cancer in Man: An introduction (Immunology series)'', Dekker, New York, NY, 1975. *''Immunity to Cancer'', (with M. S. Mitchell), Academic Press, Orlando, FL, 2012. *''Fighting Smoking: And other causes of lung cancer'', Tate Publishing, Mustang, Oklahoma, 2016.

References

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