Hugh O'Neill McDevitt ForMemRS (26 August 1930 – 28 April 2022) was an immunologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
from Harvard University in 1955 and completing his residency in New York, McDevitt was a captain in the U.S. Army and a special fellow for the National Institutes of Medical Research in London.
McDevitt was best-known for his discovery of immune response genes and the first definitive physical map of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
[5] His laboratory worked on identifying peptide fragments of proteins which lead to the inflammation and destruction of islet beta cells.
Each year, the Hugh McDevitt Prize is presented to the Ph.D. candidate with the best dissertation research in the Immunology program at Stanford University.