Michael Potter (immunologist)

Michael Potter (February 27, 1924 – June 18, 2013) was an American physician and immunologist.

[1] He won the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for outstanding contributions to medical research in 1983, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1984, for "his fundamental research in the genetics of immunoglobulin molecules and for paving the way for the development of hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies".

[3] Potter attended Princeton University for his undergraduates study, graduating in 1945.

[4] He worked at NCI for nearly sixty years, serving as a section chief in the Laboratory of Cell Biology, as a branch chief in the Laboratory of Genetics from 1982 to 2003, and as a senior investigator from 2003 until his retirement.

[3] Potter met his wife Jeanne Ann Phalen, a nursing student at the University of Virginia.