Australian wins Crafoord Prize for autoimmune discovery
LabOnline, Other, 06/02/2025
Christopher Goodnow, Head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and a professor at the UNSW Cellular Genomics Futures Institute, has been named the winner of the 2025 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis alongside Professor David Nemazee from the US-based Scripps Research. […] There, he joined Professors Antony Basten and Ron Trent, as well as Dr Kathryn Raphael at CSIRO, to reveal the first immune tolerance ‘checkpoint’ that actively stops B cells from making antibodies against our own body.