George Klein (biologist)

Georg Klein, George Klein, ( born July 28, 1925 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian -born Swedish cell biologist and cancer researcher who worked at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm as a professor of tumor biology.

Klein came as refugees after the Second World War to Sweden after in Budapest, he was professor of histology and pathology. He received his Ph.D. in 1951 in Medicine ( MD) at the Karolinska Institute and was there the assistant professor of cell research. From 1957 to 1993 he was professor of tumor biology and director of the Division of Tumor Biology at the Karolinska Institute. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University ( 1961) and 1973 to 1993 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1972 he was Fogarty Scholar at the National Institutes of Health.

Small closely considered, among other things with the Epstein -Barr virus and its role in carcinogenesis ( Burkitt's lymphoma), with the role of other cancer viruses and the genetics of cancer. He is the author and co- author of more than 1280 scientific papers.

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago (1966 ), in Debrecen, at the University of Tel Aviv, at the Hebrew University, Osaka University and the University of Nebraska. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary member of the American Association of Cancer Research (whose Clowes Memorial Lecture he gave in 1967 ), the European Association for Cancer Research and the American Association of Immunologists. From 1957 to 1993 he was also in the Nobel Committee.

In 1979, he received the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize, the 1975 William B. Coley Award, 1977 Emil von Behring Prize, the Léopold Griffuel Prize ( 1974), 1978 Björken price Erik Fernström - Price (1983 with Eva Klein), the Gairdner Foundation International Award ( 1976), the Robert Koch Medal (1998), the Paracelsus medal ( 2001) and numerous other awards. In 1975 he received the Harvey Prize and 1973 he was Lecturer Harvey.

Klein was the editor of Advances in Cancer Research.

He is married to the biologist Eva Klein.

Writings

  • The Atheist and the holy city. Encounters and reflections, MIT Press 1990, 1992 ( essays, as George Klein, Swedish 1987)
  • Live Now, Prometheus Books 1997
  • Publisher: Viral oncology, Raven Press 1980
  • Publisher: Advances in Viral Oncology, Raven Press, from 1982
  • Publisher: Viruses as the causative agents of naturally Occurring tumors, Raven Press 1985
  • Publisher: DNA virus oncogenes and Their Action, Raven Press 1983
  • Publisher: tumorigenic DNA Viruses, Raven Press 1989
  • Publisher: Cellular oncogene activation, Marcel Dekker 1988
  • Publisher: tumor suppression gene, Marcel Dekker 1990
  • Publisher: Analysis of multi- step scenarios in the natural history of human or animal cancer, Raven Press 1987
  • Carlo Croce, Chromosome translocations and human cancer, Scientific American, March 1985
  • : The approaching era of the tumor suppressor genes. In: Science. 238, 1987, pp. 1539-1545. PMID 3,317,834th
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