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Fred Rosen (physician)

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Fred S. Rosen
Born(1930-05-25)May 25, 1930
DiedMay 21, 2005(2005-05-21) (aged 74)
NationalityAmerican
AwardsE. Mead Johnson Award (1971)
AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Award (2005, first recipient)
Scientific career
FieldsPaediatrics
Immunology
InstitutionsHarvard 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

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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

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  1. ^ "Dr. Fred Saul Rosen's Profile at Harvard Medical School" (PDF).
  2. ^ a b c d "Fred Rosen, 74, leading doctor in pediatric immunology - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Fred S. Rosen". Harvard Gazette. 18 May 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. ^ 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.