Janeway worked at medical institutions including Cambridge University and the National Instituates of Health before coming to Yale in 1977.
He helped found Yale’s Section of Immunobiology in 1988.
In 2001, Janeway won the American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Charlie Janeway was a towering intellect and leading citizen of this medical school and [Yale] University,” Flavell said. “We shall miss him.”
Janeway passed away in New Haven, Conn. on April 12. He is survived by his wife, H. Kim Bottomly, also a professor of immunobiology at Yale, three daughters and three sisters.
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—Material from the Associated Press was used in this article.