Edmund Klein
Edmund Klein · Science & Medicine
Dermatologist, pioneer of topical cancer immunotherapy
1922, Vienna, Austria — 1999, Buffalo, New York, USA
United States
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Edmund Klein was an Austrian-born American dermatologist who fled Nazi-annexed Austria and became a pioneer of cancer immunotherapy at Roswell Park in Buffalo. He developed one of the first effective topical treatments for skin cancer using 5-fluorouracil, an early treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma, and pioneered the clinical use of the immune system against tumors, earning him recognition as a 'father of immunotherapy' and the 1972 Lasker Award. His work seeded a field that would transform modern oncology.
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Dermatologist, pioneer of topical cancer immunotherapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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