Melvin Cohn

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Melvin Cohn (born 1922 in New York City , † October 23, 2018 in San Diego ) was an American immunologist .

Life

Cohn was born in 1922 to American lawyers. He completed a bachelor's degree in physics at City College of New York by 1940 and completed a master's degree in protein chemistry at Columbia University in New York City the following year . In 1949 he received his PhD in biochemistry from New York University with a thesis on the chemistry of immunoglobulins .

After serving in the US Army from 1942 to 1946, Cohn worked in the Department of Microbiology at New York University's medical school until 1949. He then moved to the Pasteur Institute in Paris as a Fellow of the National Research Council . In 1955, Cohn was appointed professor of microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1959 to 1961 he was Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto . From 1961 to 1963 was again a scholarship holder of the National Science Foundation at the Pasteur Institute. In 1962 he was appointed professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, which he helped to establish.

From 1966 to 1968, Cohn was co-editor of the Journal of Molecular Biology . In 2011 he retired and remained active at the institute until his death.

Cohn was married to Suzanne Bourgeois-Cohn , an immunologist who also worked at the Salk Institute .

Research priorities

The evolutionary factors that led to the development of the human immune system were at the center of Cohn's interest. He was also concerned with how the immune system reacts to infections in order to protect the body. To do this, he developed computer models. Cohn has contributed to more than 300 publications.

Awards

Cohn was visiting professor at numerous universities around the world.

  • 1956 Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award
  • 1972 Jessup Lecturer, Columbia University, New York
  • 1975 Bayne-Jones Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • 1978 honorary member of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology
  • 1980 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1982 Jacques Monod Lecturer, Pasteur Institute, Paris
  • 1995 Sandoz Prize in Basic Immunology
  • 2012 Knapp Lecturer, University of Chicago

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Salk Institute Cofounder Melvin Cohn Dies , The Scientist Magazine, October 26, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Cohn's curriculum vitae at the Salk Institute
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Melvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2018
Place of death San Diego