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9-614: The institute is named after Jules Bordet (1870–1961), an immunologist and microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity. The hospital is located nearby the academic Erasmus Hospital in Anderlecht since November 2021. This article about a Belgian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

18-471: A hospital in Europe is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jules Bordet Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet ( / b ɔːr ˈ d eɪ / bor- DAY , French: [ʒyl ʒɑ̃ batist vɛ̃sɑ̃ bɔʁdɛ] ; 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist . The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

27-566: A process of autolysis. This theory collapsed in 1941 with the publication by Ruska of the first electron microscope pictures of bacteriophages. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity. Bordet died in 1961 and was interred in the Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels. The Bordet railway station in Brussels is named after him. The cancer hospital Institut Jules Bordet

36-550: Is also named after him. Bordet railway station Bordet railway station ( French : Gare de Bordet ; Dutch : Station Bordet ) is a railway station in the municipality of Evere in Brussels , Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB). The station lies on line 26 , between Haren and Evere railway stations. The station is located under street level, at

45-516: The bacteriolytic effect of acquired specific antibody is significantly enhanced in vivo by the presence of innate serum components which he termed alexine (but which are now known as complement ). Four years later, in 1899, he described a similar destructive process involving complement, " hemolysis ", in which foreign red blood cells are ruptured or "lysed" following exposure to immune serum. In 1900, he left Paris to found an institute in Brussels like Pasteur's, and continued to work extensively on

54-560: The cause of whooping cough . He became Professor of Bacteriology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1907. In March 1916, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1930, delivered their Croonian Lecture . In this lecture, Bordet also concluded that bacteriophages , the bacteria-killing "invisible viruses" discovered by Felix d'Herelle did not exist and that bacteria destroyed themselves using

63-670: The crossroad between the Chaussée de Haecht / Haachtsesteenweg and the Avenue Jules Bordet / Jules Bordetlaan , next to the border with the City of Brussels . At street level, there are the last stops of Brussels tram route 55 and bus route 59, which offer a connection with regional transport. Bus routes 45 and 69 also stop there. There are multiple large employers in the Bordet station's area. Together with its location near

72-518: The mechanisms involved in the action of complement. These studies became the basis for complement-fixation testing methods that enabled the development of serological tests for syphilis (specifically, the development of the Wassermann test by August von Wassermann ). The same technique is used today in serologic testing for countless other diseases. With Octave Gengou , he isolated Bordetella pertussis in pure culture in 1906 and posited it as

81-636: Was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity. 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. In 1895 Bordet made his discovery that

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