The James Logan Courier

By Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford University's ambitious bid to build a New York City campus came to a sudden stop on Friday, when the university abruptly withdrew from the competition.

In a startling announcement, President John Hennessy said the university and the city "could not find a way to realize our mutual goals."

The university was considered a front-runner for the graduate school in applied sciences and engineering, a plan conceived by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a way to bolster the region's tech talent and catalyze a second Silicon Valley.

From wikipedia:
George Davis Snell (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.

George Snell shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset for their discoveries concerning "genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions". Snell specifically "discovered the genetic factors that determine the possibilities of transplanting tissue from one individual to another. It was Snell who introduced the concept of H antigens." Snell's work in mice led to the discovery of HLA, the major histocompatibility complex, in humans (and all vertebrates) that is analogous to the H-2 complex in mice. Recognition of these key genes was prerequisite to successful tissue and organ transplantation.



Read George D. Snell's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.