Tending Adam'S Garden. Evolving The Cognitive Immune Self

Biographie d'Irun-R Cohen

Irun R. COHEN was born in Chicago in 1937, and is married with three children and three grandchildren. Prof Cohen studied Philosophy at Northwestern University, where he gained his BA in 1959, and subsequently studied Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School, gaining his MD in 1963. He trained in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, and subsequently undertook research in infectious diseases as a commissioned officer of the US Public Health Service at the CDC, Atlanta. He has been involved in research in the field of immunology at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1968, where he holds positions as The Mauerberger Professor of Immunology, The Director of The Robert Koch - Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Diseases, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and The Director of The Center for the Study of Emerging Diseases, Jerusalem, Israel.