Stanley Norman Cohen

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Stanley Norman Cohen, 2016

Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935 in Perth Amboy , New Jersey ) is an American geneticist and professor at Stanford University in Stanford , California .

Life

Cohen studied at Rutgers University in New Brunswick , New Jersey , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 . He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and graduated with an MD in 1960 .

Cohen received an assistant professorship ( Assistant Professor 1968, Associate Professor 1971) at Stanford University Medical School in Stanford, California. He stayed at this university throughout his entire academic career. In 1969 he became head of clinical pharmacology , in 1975 he was given a full professorship in medicine and in 1977 in genetics. Between 1978 and 1986 he was head of the Department of Genetics . Since 1993 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine. Cohen has been married to Joanna Lucy Wolter since 1961 and has two children.

Act

Stanley Norman Cohen's laboratory, 1973, reconstruction in the National Museum of American History

Cohen took an early interest in plasmids , genetic material from bacteria that resides outside the bacterial chromosomes . He succeeded in smuggling plasmids into other bacteria and thus their offspring. With the help of restriction enzymes , he and Herbert Wayne Boyer were able to transplant genes from other, even higher, organisms into bacteria in 1973 and force the expression of these genes. The Cohen-Boyer patent became the basis of the recombination technology.

Boyers and Cohen's research led to the development of techniques for cloning genes (splicing, recombination , replication ). The work of both researchers is the basis of genetic engineering .

Current work deals with the development and spread of antibiotic resistance .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stanley Cohen at laskerfoundation.org; Retrieved November 23, 2010
  2. ^ The 1981 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine at wolffund.org.il; Retrieved November 23, 2010
  3. ↑ Stanley N. Cohen at nsf.gov; Retrieved November 23, 2010
  4. ^ The National Medal of Technology and Innovation Recipients 1989 at uspto.gov; Retrieved November 24, 2010
  5. ^ Albany Medical College: 2004. In: amc.edu. March 2011, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ An Essay on Prize One in Life Science and Medicine 2004 at shawprize.org; Retrieved November 23, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Stanley Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Stanley N .; Cohen, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth Amboy , New Jersey