Together with Jules A. Hoffmann , he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for `` their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity '' ( the other half went to Ralph M. Steinman for `` his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity '' ) .
Together with Jules Hoffmann , he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , for `` discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity '' ( the other half went to Ralph Steinman for `` his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity '' ) .