The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
Awarded on: 1986-10-13
"for their discoveries of growth factors"
Affiliations:
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine – Nashville, TN, USA
Stanley Cohen
Born: 1922-11-17 in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist (1922–2020)
Biography
Stanley Cohen 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. He died in February 2020 at the age of 97.