Samuel Freedman
Samuel Freedman · Science & Medicine
Biomedical researcher
1928, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canada (McGill University · Jewish General Hospital, Montreal)
Samuel Freedman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biomedical researcher
Samuel Orkin Freedman, a Canadian clinical immunologist born in Montreal and long associated with the city's Jewish General Hospital, co-discovered in 1965 with Phil Gold the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). CEA became the basis of a widely used blood test for monitoring colorectal and other cancers. Freedman later served as dean of medicine and a senior academic administrator at McGill.
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Biomedical researcher
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