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A native Montrealer, Ralph Steinman, is among three Canadians being touted as possible winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine by Thomson Reuters, a company that uses research data to predict Nobel winners.

Steinman, 67, an immunologist at Rockefeller University in New York City, is seen as a good bet because of his discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of the immune response. The 麻豆传媒网站 University graduate currently develops vaccines and therapies for tumors, infections and autoimmune diseases.