Rudensky received his
Candidate of Sciences degree in 1986 from the Gabrichevsky Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, and completed his postdoctoral work at the
Yale School of Medicine. He is now the Chair of the Immunology Program and Director of the Ludwig Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, as well as a professor at the
Rockefeller University,
Cornell University,
Gerstner School of Graduate Studies, and
Weill-Cornell Medical School. In a 2003 paper, Rudensky and colleagues showed that FOXP3 programs regulatory T cell development. == Awards ==