- Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
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name = Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
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caption = Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
birth_date =November 17 ,1922
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nationality = American
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field =biochemistry
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alma_mater =University of Michigan
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known_for =nerve growth factor
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prizes =Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine
religion = |footnotes = |Stanley Cohen (born
November 17 ,1922 ) is an American biochemist andNobel Prize Laureate inPhysiology andMedicine (1986). He is a distinguished researcher and academic associated with theVanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville,Tennessee .He received his
bachelor's degree in 1943 fromBrooklyn College , where he had double-majored inchemistry andzoology . After working as abacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, he received his M.A. in zoology fromOberlin College in 1945. He earned a Ph.D. from the department of biochemistry at theUniversity of Michigan in 1948.Working with
Rita Levi-Montalcini (co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1986) atWashington University in St. Louis in the 1950s, Cohen isolatednerve growth factor and then went on to discoverepidermal growth factor . He continued his research on cellular growth factors after moving to Vanderbilt University in 1959. His research on cellular growth factors has proven fundamental to understanding the development ofcancer and designing anti-cancer drugs.Cohen also received the
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize fromColumbia University together with Rita Levi-Montalcini in 1983 and theNational Medal of Science in 1986.References
*cite journal
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last=Raju
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year=2000|month=Feb.
title=The Nobel chronicles. 1986: Stanley Cohen (b 1922); Rita Levi-Montalcini (b 1909)
journal=Lancet
volume=355
issue=9202
pages=506
publisher= |location =ENGLAND | issn = 0140-6736| pmid = 10841166
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coauthors=Kyle R A
year=1999|month=Jun.
title=Stanley Cohen--Nobel laureate for growth factor
journal=Mayo Clin. Proc.
volume=74
issue=6
pages=600
publisher= |location =UNITED STATES | issn = 0025-6196| pmid = 10377936
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last=Weltman
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title=The 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded for discovery of growth factors: Rita Levi-Montalcini, M.D., and Stanley Cohen, Ph.D
journal=N Engl Reg Allergy Proc
volume=8
issue=1
pages=47-8
publisher= |location =UNITED STATES | issn = 0742-2814| pmid = 3302667
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* [http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1986a.html Stanley Cohen Nobel link]
* [http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/ The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]
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