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Bor·det (bôr-d), Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent 1870-1961.
Belgian bacteriologist. With French bacteriologist Octave Gengou (1875-1957), he developed (1900) the technique of complement fixation testing and discovered (1906) the agent of whooping cough. Bordet won a 1919 Nobel Prize for advances in immunology.


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The Jules Bordet Institute is a leading university hospital devoted to prevention, screening, patient care, research and education in cancer.
He has held staff positions at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, (New York, NY); the Institut Jules Bordet, (Brussels, Belgium); the Institut de Cancerologie et d'Immunogenetique, (Villejuif, France); and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, (Newark, NJ), where he was professor of medicine and director of the Medical Oncology division.
The study, "Effects of Statins and Fibrates on Progression of Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease," was authored by Isabelle Masse, Regis Bordet, Dominique Deplanque, Abdullatif Al Khedr, Christian Libersa, and Florence Pasquier.
 
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