Fred Rosen (physician)
Fred S. Rosen | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 25, 1930 |
| Died | May 21, 2005 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | E. Mead Johnson Award (1971) AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Award (2005, first recipient) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paediatrics Immunology |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital |
Fred Saul Rosen (May 25, 1930 – May 21, 2005) was a pediatrician and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.[1]
Early life and career
[edit]Rosen was born in Newark, NJ. He received his bachelor's degree from Lafayette College and his MD from Case Western Reserve University. He moved to Boston in 1955 to begin a pathology residency at Children's where he worked with Charles Janeway and Sidney Farber.[2][3] He began an immunology fellowship in 1959. He and Janeway pioneered the study of primary immunodeficiency diseases at Boston Children's Hospital.[4]
Rosen discovered, early in his career, the cause of X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome. He also worked on X-linked agammaglobulinaemia.[citation needed] He published over 300 papers on his research.[3]
Rosen was the head of the division of immunology at Boston Children's Hospital from 1968 to 1985.[2] In 1987, he moved to the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research at Harvard University.[2]
Rosen spoke French, Italian Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic and Russian, and traveled extensively.[3]
Rosen died of cancer in 2005. He had no surviving family members.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dr. Fred Saul Rosen's Profile at Harvard Medical School" (PDF).
- ^ a b c d "Fred Rosen, 74, leading doctor in pediatric immunology - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ a b c "Fred S. Rosen". Harvard Gazette. 18 May 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Geha, Raif S. (October 2005). "Charles A. Janeway and Fred S. Rosen: the discovery of gamma globulin therapy and primary immunodeficiency diseases at Boston Children's Hospital". The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 116 (4): 937–940. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2005.07.025. ISSN 0091-6749. PMID 16229111.
