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On this segment of CUNY Laureates, we find out how Brooklyn College graduate Stanley Cohen grew a mighty medical breakthrough from the smallest of scientific...
Stanley Cohen (November 17, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor.
Over hot pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen opened the door to genetic engineering and laid the foundations for gene therap...
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Feb 7, 2020 · Stanley Cohen, a Brooklyn-born biochemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of chemicals that promote and help regulate the growth of cells — research that...
The Discovery of Growth Factor and the RevolutionFROM BROOKLYN TO A NEW WAY OF APPROACHING DISEASEStanley Cohen was awarded one half of the 1986 Nobel Prize ...
Mar 20, 2020 · Stanley Cohen, biochemist and Nobel laureate, died on 5 February at age 97 in Nashville, Tennessee, where he had served on the faculty of Vanderbilt University since 1959. With neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, Cohen discovered the first growth factor, a hormone-like protein that regulates cell responses such as proliferation and ...
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Stanley Cohen, a Brooklyn-born biochemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of chemicals that promote and help regulate the growth of cells — research that greatly advanced science’s understanding of cancer, dementia and other maladies — died on Wednesday in Nashville.
