 According to the 2019 Scimago Institutions Ranking, Inserm is ranked 2nd best research institution in the health sector (behind the NIH), and 22nd across all sectors.Two Inserm research scientists have been awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.In 1980, the French immunologist Jean Dausset received the Nobel prize (along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell), for his work on the discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex.