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Stanley Cohen
1922 – 2020
Who
Stanley Cohen · Science & Medicine
What
Growth Factors
When
1922, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2020, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Where
United States (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Biography
Stanley Cohen was an American-Jewish biochemist who co-developed recombinant DNA technology.
How & why
Cohen isolated and characterized epidermal growth factor and nerve growth factor, revealing the protein signals that tell cells to grow and differentiate and opening entire fields of cancer and developmental biology. He shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini. He was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from Russia.
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Source: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Contributions & Sources
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1986
Source: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
