Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (February 5, 1943 – April 12, 2003) was an American immunologist who helped create the modern field of innate immunity.
He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and Harvard College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry.
Janeway was one of the leading immunologists of his generation, studying the innate immune system and the biology of T cells.
[4] Janeway made fundamental contributions to many other areas of immunology, including co-discovery of bacterial superantigens.
[5] Together with Alexander Rudensky, Janeway also characterized how self antigens associate with MHC class II molecules.