Felix Milgrom

Felix Milgrom ( born October 12, 1919 in Rohatyn, Poland, † September 2, 2007 in Buffalo (New York)) was an American immunologist and microbiologist.

Milgrom in 1947 his doctorate at the University of Breslau in medicine. He then taught there until 1954 as a professor ( Habilitation 1951). 1954 to 1957 he was professor and head of microbiology at the Silesian Medical University in Zabrze. From 1958 he was at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he 1967 to 1985 the Department of Microbiology board, succeeding Ernest Witebsky, with whom he there founded the Center for Immunology (now Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology ). In 1981 he had the title of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

Milgrom dealt with the serology of syphilis ( where he still a simple blood test developed in Poland, which was used immediately after the Second World War at the outbreak of a syphilis epidemic in Eastern Europe) and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases, antibodies, tumor immunology and transplantation immunology.

In 1987 he was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. He is a multiple honorary doctorate (University of Vienna in 1976, Lund University 1979, University of Heidelberg, 1979, University of Bergen 1980, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, 1991).

He was married in 1941 and had two children.