Stanley Norman Cohen

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Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist.

Originally from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Cohen is a graduate of Rutgers University, and received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1960. Following subsequent training at various institutions, including the National Institutes of Health, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1968.

It was there that he began to explore the field of bacterial plasmids. He wanted to understand how the genes of plasmids could make bacteria resistant to antibiotics. In 1972, Cohen's investigations, combined with those of Herbert Boyer, led to the development of methods to combine and transplant genes. This discovery signalled the birth of genetic engineering, and he received National Medal of Science(1988) in his honor. Today, Cohen is a professor of genetics and medicine at Stanford, where he works on a variety of scientific problems including cell growth and development.

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  • Biography — A page of short boiographical sketches of various figures in genetics.
Shaw Prize

Astronomy 2004: Peebles 2005: Marcy, Mayor 2006: Perlmutter, Riess, Schmidt
Life Science and Medicine 2004: Prize 1: Cohen, Boyer, Kan Prize 2: Doll 2005: Berridge 2006: Wang
Mathematical Sciences 2004: Chern 2005: Wiles 2006: Mumford, Wu