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          Hidde Ploegh is a biochemist interested in questions of immunological relevance.!

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          Hidde Ploegh is a biochemist whose area of interest is the immune system.

          Hidde Ploegh's laboratory is interested in the biochemistry of immune recognition, and in mechanisms by which pathogens avoid being seen by the immune system.

        1. From the moment he finished his Ph.D., Hidde Ploegh has been a wanted man.
        2. Hidde Ploegh is a biochemist interested in questions of immunological relevance.
        3. Upon completing his PhD, he became a staff scientist at the University of Cologne in Germany, and then returned to the Netherlands as a staff scientist and head.
        4. Hidde PLOEGH, Senior Investigator | Cited by | of Boston Children's Hospital, Boston | Read publications | Contact Hidde PLOEGH.

          5. He is known for his analysis of the pathways involved in antigen presentation by products of the Major histocompatibility Complex (MHC).

          Ploegh was born in the Netherlands and came to Boston to perform the experimental part of his Ph.D.

          work under the supervision of Jack Strominger at Harvard university in He returned to Europe in , and after having held positions in Germany () and the Netherlands () he joined the faculty of MIT as full professor in  In  he became the incumbent of the Mallinckrodt Professorship in Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School and taught both undergraduate and graduate immunology as the director of the graduate program in immunology.

          He was recruited back to MIT in After spending more than 10 years at the MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he joined the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children’s Hospital.

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