Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet
immunology
ACPHARM
Belgium
Biography
Bordet was born at Soignies, Belgium. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine from the Free University of Brussels in 1892 and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, who had just discovered phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells, an expression of cellular immunity.
Research Interest
phagocytosis
