The judges comprise a prestigious, international panel of nine members, chaired by

Andrew McMichael, of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

The other members are:

Tadamitsu Kishimoto Laboratory of Immune Regulation, Osaka University, Japan

Bernard Malissen Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France

Philippa Marrack, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado.

Hidde Ploegh, of the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

David H. Sachs, of the Harvard Medical School, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Jan de Vries, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Vienna, Austria.