Mary E. Brunkow

Mary E. Brunkow (born 1961) is an American molecular biologist and immunologist. She was known for finding the gene later named FOXP3 as the cause of the scurfy mouse phenotype. This became important to understand regulatory T cell biology. 

In 2025, she was given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her works in discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.

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