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Melvin Cohn

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to serve as co-founders, which they both accepted despite the risks involved in joining a new venture which was still short of money. Cohn's wife, biologist
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to protect the body from infection, and developed computer models to predict the immune system's response to infections.
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and earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1949, with a specialization in
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at the Salk Institute for the next 57 years. He demonstrated that
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Honorary Member of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology (1978)
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of the city. He also diagnosed patients affected by a major
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After being discharged from the army in 1946, he attended
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In 1961, when Salk decided to build his institute in
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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After the end of the war, he was sent to 274:in 1945 to study the after-effects of the 18: 326:Washington University School of Medicine 466: 338:Stanford University School of Medicine 688:Military personnel from New York City 611:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 562:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 448:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 410:, a theater scholar and authority on 354:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 315:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 193:Salk Institute for Biological Studies 7: 552: 550: 548: 522: 520: 518: 516: 514: 512: 510: 508: 506: 480: 478: 476: 474: 472: 470: 485:Yaeger, Ashley (October 26, 2018). 527:Robbins, Gary (October 25, 2018). 251:and earned his master's degree in 169:Washington University in St. Louis 14: 648:20th-century American biochemists 581:Weber, Bruce (October 30, 2011). 16:American immunologist (1922–2018) 454:Sandoz Prize in Basic Immunology 352:, who was planning to build the 107: 658:City College of New York alumni 103: 1: 683:Scientists from New York City 360:looking at potential sites. 344:, where he was professor of 729: 668:New York University alumni 301:From 1949 Cohn worked in 282:epidemic in the country. 215:to protect the body from 182: 143: 698:American microbiologists 245:City College of New York 533:San Diego Union-Tribune 336:. In 1959, he moved to 211:interact directly with 203:. He demonstrated that 653:American immunologists 429:Honors and recognition 371:, he invited Cohn and 358:San Francisco Bay Area 342:Palo Alto, California 128:Elanco Research Award 379:, also joined them. 313:, who later won the 239:, he chose to study 106: 1946; 369:Southern California 287:New York University 249:Columbia University 173:Stanford University 74:New York University 613:. 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Index

New York City
San Diego
New York University
Ruby Cohn
Elanco Research Award
Sandoz Prize
Immunology
Pasteur Institute
Washington University in St. Louis
Stanford University
Salk Institute
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla
California
immunoglobulins
white blood cells
pathogens
infection
gene regulation
New York City
law
physics
City College of New York
Columbia University
chemistry
United States Army
Pacific Theater
Hiroshima
Japan
atomic bombing

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