Sydney Cohen

Sydney Cohen

Sydney Cohen CBE, FRS (born 18 September 1921) is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School and an authority on malaria.

He was educated at King Edward VIIth School, Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand and London universities.

Career

* EMS, UK, 1944-45
* Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Witwatersrand University, 1947-53
* Scientific Staff, National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1954-60
* Reader, Department of Immunology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1960-65
* Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, 1965-86.

Other positions held

He was a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) and chairman of its Tropical Medicine Research Board, 1974-76. He was the chairman of the World Health Organization Scientific Group on Immunity to Malaria, 1976-81, and a membe rof the WHO expert adv. panel on malaria, 1977-89.He helped to found the Royal College of Pathologists in 1964. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the CBE in 1978. He was on the Council of the Royal Societ, 1981-83, and the Royal Society Assessor on the MRC, 1982-84.

He retired to St. Andrews, where he is a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

References

* Who's Who


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