The continuing effect of the discovery of IgE by Kimishige Ishizaka

Publication date: Available online 1 August 2018

Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Author(s): Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills

Sadly, Kimi Ishizaka died on July 6, 2018. I would like to take the opportunity to consider his role in the discovery of IgE and the effect of that discovery. All of us owe an enormous debt to those who established the relevance of IgE and the importance of its receptor on basophils and mast cells. In my own case, I owe a special debt for the pleasure and extraordinary education of working with him at Hopkins between September 1971 and October 1974.

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